Watchdog.org Podcast

By Eric Boehm and Ben Yount | Watchdog Radio This is Behind the Headlines, Watchdog.org’s podcast that takes a deeper look at the political news of the day. In this week’s episode, host Ben Yount sits down with Jerry Ellis, a senior research fellow from the Mercatus Institute, to talk about the problems with subsidizing broadband internet at the federal level. For starters, the big problem is that not everyone wants or needs high-speed internet.  Although subsidies are being pushed as a way to increase internet access for rural and poor communities, there are better ways to accomplish the same goals.  And when the FCC continues to move the goal-posts for what providers must include in so-called "high speed" internet, it's bad news for the companies and the people who are paying for those services.