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The Hill: $17B tax hike from Obama Web rules

  • December 1, 2014
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

A new report by PPI Senior Fellow Hal Singer and Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Litan, Outdated Regulations Will Make Consumers Pay More for Broadband, was covered in a story by The Hill:

If Obama’s plan is put into place, “U.S. consumers will have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for both residential fixed and wireless broadband services,” wrote the authors of a new Progressive Policy Institute study.

“The higher fees would come on top of the adverse impact on consumers of less investment and slower innovation that would result from reclassification,” they added.

Read the article in its entirety at The Hill.

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