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Spencer P. Morrison
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Spencer P. Morrison writes National Economics Editorial, a personal blog at nationaleconomicseditorial.com about economics and politics. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Americans Taxed $400B for Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this site's posts on US telecom subsidies, fiber broadband spending and immigration as supporting sources in threads on those topics. Commenters question how credible the site is.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Americans Taxed $400B for Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-11-30
What Hacker News says?
According to: https://www.rmv.se/aktuellt/det-visar-tre-manader-av-medicin... I don't speak Swedish, so I had to translate it (the site I found the link from[0] after Googling seems like it has an axe to grind). They indicate that, of ~2400 refugees where the National Medical Board rendered an opinion, some ~2000 were estimated to be eighteen years of age or older, with ~400 estimated to be under eighteen years of a…
Comment linking /2017/07/15/sweden-child-migrants/
on “F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules”Submitted Supreme Court Sides with Consumers–Affirms Your Right to Repair Stuff as a story · 247 points
HN discussionThat study concerns itself with LEGAL immigrants, not ILLEGAL immigrants as I specified, and uses proved-wrong, outdated numbers for its estimate of illegal immigration. See the recent Yale study : https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2018/01/19/yale-study...
Comment linking /2018/01/19/yale-study-shows-23-million-illegal-immigrants/
on “Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby”Submitted Americans Taxed $400B for Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist as a story · 59 points
HN discussion>One question I have is whether these gigabit deployments actually happen, No. Every time the US gives money to telecoms to roll out fiber, the telecoms play a shell game and disappear the money or use it to fight against municipalities that try to build their own infrastructure. https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/11/27/americans-...
Comment linking /2017/11/27/americans-fiber-optic-internet/
on “SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states”Submitted 1 in 9 TX Students Here Due to Illegal Immigration–Cost Texas $7.87B Annually as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAfter we the taxpayers paid them $400B to cover that expense, and the telecomms pocketed it, I have the world's smallest violin to play for this particular argument. https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/11/27/americans-...
Comment linking /2017/11/27/americans-fiber-optic-internet/
on “Coronavirus could force ISPs to abandon data caps forever”Submitted Americans Taxed $400B for Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIs there a source that's not run by a self-proclaimed nationalist? https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/contact/ and isn't on a spammy feeling website?
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on “Americans Taxed $400B for Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist”