Let’s Be More Like Europe – Opinion

Over the years, The Left has told us to look more like Europe.

How to Make America More European-like

Here are 10 things Europe has that America doesn’t.

Here are 15 reasons why Europe is better than America

The idea was not liked by We the People, which is quite right.

Americans Are Horrified To Be Told That They Should Live like Europeans

The Left is constantly puzzled by this.

Why Do So Many Americans Say ‘We Don’t Want to Be Like Europe?’

The very many very other obvious reasons aside….

European Socialism: Why America Doesn’t Want It

Here’s an excellent question….

Why is it that so many people choose to move to the US over Europe, even though Europe is a better place to live than the US?

When the rubber meets the road — it’s people heading out of Europe to the US.

However, the Left does not allow the facts to stand in the way of good beatings.

The Left constantly tells us how great Europe is at the internet.

What makes European Broadband faster and cheaper?

I’ll field that one.  It’s called landmass.  Texas is smaller than most European countries.  We also have 49 other states that we can connect.  Each European country must dig a much smaller trench and lay more cable than the US, as well as spot many fewer transmission towers.

Oh: Except when the China Virus rubber met the road….

China Virus Breaks Europe’s Internet – Not the US’s

China Virus Lockdown Proves US Internet is Better, Stronger and Faster Than Europe’s

However, the Left and Europe sometimes accidentally fall for it.  When they do, I say: The Left is right — let’s be more like Europe.

Blind pig, meet acorn….

European Phone Companies Suggest Big Tech Support for Infrastructure

Oh wait – it’s Europe emulating US after all…:

“In a move which would be familiar to net neutrality campaigners in the US, European telecom’s networks are saying that the US tech giants should bear some of the costs of developing Europe’s telecoms networks because they use them so heavily.”

Yes. Some of us Americans are asking for the exact opposite.

We’re About to Pay Billions More Per Year for Big Tech’s Government Cronyism

A Big Tech Crony-Free Ride that Must End

Senate Republicans Want Big Tech to Pay for Internet Infrastructure

“‘For too long, Big Tech has been able to profit off of the critical infrastructure used for common day-to-day activities while not helping at a sufficient level to improve those capabilities with broadband investment….’”

Ending Big Tech’s Free Ride:

“Big Tech has been enjoying a free ride on our internet infrastructure while skipping out on the billions of dollars in costs needed to maintain and build that network. Indeed, one study shows that the online streaming services provided by just five companies—Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Microsoft—account for a whopping 75 percent of all traffic on rural broadband networks.

“The same study shows that 77-94 percent of total network costs are related to adding capacity or otherwise supporting the delivery of those streaming services. These costs have been borne by ordinary Americans and not Big Tech.

“Yet Big Tech derives tremendous value from these high-speed networks. Indeed, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google generated nearly $1 trillion in revenues in 2020 alone—an almost 20 percent increase over the prior year.

“It would take just 0.009 percent of those revenues to eliminate entirely the unsustainable 30 percent tax that currently hits consumers on their monthly bills….

“Ending Big Tech’s free ride on the internet would represent a long-overdue return to the historic compact under which the businesses that benefit from a network pay their fair share for it. It would lower monthly bills for millions of Americans.”

So…Europe is right.  America is also right.  And the Left is…inadvertently, unintentionally right.

It’s time for Big Tech to finally kick in.  To help pay for the Internet infrastructure that has made them free-ride-trillionaires.