Public outrage over this fee has led to massive Twitter activity.
Unless Verizon cancels the fee due to public outrage, there are ways to avoid the payment.
Public broadcasters levy a compulsory fee, but relatively few people pay cable or satellite broadcasters for extra channels.
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"When things go wrong, when terrible abuse and neglect takes place, the public expect those who take the fee to be held to account, " he told MPs.
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However, PACER charged a fee for accessing this public-domain information.
The company exists to maximise the value of the BBC's assets for the benefit of the licence fee payer and invest in public service programming in return for rights.
By ridding the nation of Taxation and instituting borrowing to fund public expenditures, the nation will shed all those costs of Taxation in deterrence and government excess for the negligible fee of borrowing in the financial markets and the administration of public debt.
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The BBC uses licence fee-payers' money - public money - to fund its services, and so has a special responsibility to deliver real value to the public.
Along with signing off on the request to extend the financing, which had been scheduled to mature on Thursday, Judge Gropper advised Levy to submit fee-related filings to the public record.
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While global custodians have enjoyed decades of overcharging pensions through bundled fee schemes, I predict that public pensions (which are severely underfunded) will increasingly scrutinize their custodial arrangements and seek to clawback any ill-gotten gains.
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Both are public beaches, and with a small parking fee (often avoidable in the off-season) you can walk across the sandy expanse for miles in either direction, taking a near-private tour of areas crowded with people during the high season.
As Britain's public-service broadcaster, funded by a licence fee paid by viewers, the corporation has always prided itself on the high quality and independence of its reporting.
Today, they provide support and education for 2, 400 members who provide fee-only financial planning services to the public.
There has been extraordinary public support for (or apathy about) the licence fee.
Some consumers have shared how their all-in monthly DPC fee is less than the co-pays at public health centers.
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Doctors in public hospitals are salaried whilst those in private hospitals are paid on a fee-for-service basis.
And that sends a clear message to everyone in the school district, a message opposite of that intended by community-supported public schools: opportunities are available only to those who can pay the fee.
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The runaway factor here is the fee-for-service reimbursement system that predominates in private and public insurance plans.
Today public pensions are gambling more than ever on high-risk, high-fee alternative investments in a desperate attempt to narrow their massive underfunding.
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But many do not, and between the Internet and an excellent public library system, most Americans can learn pretty much anything for a nominal fee.
The landowner and Eilean Eisdeal Community Trust are embroiled in a dispute after he demanded a land use fee and asked to see a copy of the trust's public liability insurance.
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The alleged hacking was significant because the documents came from the government-run Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, which typically charges a fee, which was 8 cents a page in 2009.
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The BBC is already cutting its workforce and output after Cameron's government imposed deep spending cuts and any loss of public trust could prove an issue in future discussions over funding and the licence fee.
An Ipsos MORI poll in August showed a public no longer squarely behind the status quo: 37% said the licence fee was not the right way to fund the BBC, and 47% denied it was good value.
The licence fee would only be kept as the main method of funding the BBC if the public was convinced that the corporation was spending money wisely, he said.
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