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Nick @ Jun 13th 2008 1:00PM
I got two coupons. I used one. That's 50% Don't need another one, don't want one. I have sattelite in every room of my house, but I needed a converter for the TV in the garage.
You need an expiration date, otherwise the thing will go over budget. The way governmental budgets work, ALL governmental budgets work, in every country, you put aside a certain amount of money, then if you didn't use it, you roll it back into the main budget, otherwise you lose all that money. Any money lost by this government would be a very, very bad thing. We, as a country are in deep, deep debt, and everyone got the chance to purchase a converter, with a coupon. If you're too cheap to pay the 20 bucks for a converter, you can go ahead and bite me. The government gave everyone a decent chance, if you didn't take it, bite me.
thorphin @ Jun 13th 2008 1:11PM
You're forgetting one thing, Nick. The program was designed so that any expired coupons would go back into the system for new disbursement for NEW coupons. The money is allocated to the program, and it recycles until it's used up or people stop requesting coupons. The problem is that to send out new coupons, the government has to use more money on postage, wheras extending expiration dates (or not expiring until, say, February from the start) would actually be the cheapest solution. By ordering more coupons than you need or use, you are actually creating more expenditures.
Nick @ Jun 13th 2008 3:13PM
The cheapest solution would have been an electronic one, give everyone a number online and then they can go out and use that number.
thorphin @ Jun 13th 2008 5:08PM
Sure, but that would be a target audience mismatch. The coupon program is supposed to allow people who can't afford pay-TV to continue to receive free TV at very little cost. Often, the people who aren't paying for TV are also the same people who don't have (or understand) Internet access. It's not to say they couldn't have offered some sort of combination solution with a little of solution a and a little of solution b.... but yeah... that may be asking too much of the govt.
William C Bonner @ Jun 14th 2008 1:01PM
While I agree you need an expiration of some sort, expiring in one year would make sense, since one year after they sent the things out the old analog spectrum will have been reclaimed. I know that when the tv in my kitchen suddenly doesn't work at all, I'll really weigh the thought of more wires / complexity vs not working at all. I currently only use that TV once every few months, so it just doesn't seem worth the hassle.