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"So to deal with an issue created by political impatience with transitioning technology, one group proposes subsidizing converter boxes ? and by extension, the companies making those boxes. Another responds to that by basically saying ?nah, people are too stupid to use coupons right?. Yet another wants to repeat the Y2k panic. As for the GOP response, if they were seriously convinced the market could sort this out, they wouldn't have agreed to the spectrum grab in the first place."