Cable firms must advertise full price including Broadcast TV and sports fees.

Quick! Someone tell us why this isn’t a good thing because the government did it! Surely there’s some secret corruption at work!

Whatever it is It will only come down to costing companies with deep lobby pockets money and how the conservative new agencies are spinning it.

I’d like to see everything priced on the rim and out the door. Taxes, registration, fees, shipping all on the line. I’d like the price on the shelf/invoice/website/advertisement/cash register and bank statement to all match.

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The lobbying group for cable companies said that it would hurt their highly competitive market(I’m sure they weren’t able to type that without laughing) and it makes it harder for them to advertise one price since the cost of the sports and local bundles are regional (though they have no problems getting those prices correct on the bills.)

Umm uhhhh they’ll have to increase the total price to make up the difference in processing more numbers which will cause the employee budget to decrease hurting the local economy which means less taxes to fund fire department and your babies will burn in a fire caused by the unqualified cable tech they had to hire to offset the loss in profits.

No no no, you got all wrong. Think of the children! They are ruining the future of our children!

I just want the unqualified cable tech to not snip the cable to my antenna while he’s in my backyard.

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Usually here it’s not a good thing because nothing is allowed to be good. Was the same on a lot of Reddit, too. Like, the upliftingnews subreddit comments were the worst for it.

Only complaint I have is they waited till the shit is dying to step in and do something. But hey, still a win yo

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