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"We have to learn the lesson that intellectual honesty is fundamental for everything we cherish." -Sir Karl Popper

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Verizon saves customers $1.25-- and only charges $1.20 for it!

Ah, the marvels of corporatism. Verizon lobbied hard to get a federal tax, the Universal Service Fund, stricken from the lawbooks. It amounted to $1.25 per DSL customer per month. But they're not passing the savings on to you-- the difference is being made up by a price hike thanks to a new Verizon surcharge of $1.20. They call it saving you a nickel. I call it bribing legislators to boost executive salaries.

The Onion decided to take aim at Verizon with a 'news in brief' story titled "Verizon Introduces New Charge-You-At-Whim Plan."