How can internet access be a right?  We can have fair access as part of the social contract; we can pass an amendment to exempt it in some special way; we can all agree to use other taxes to support it -- but we can&#x27;t declare it a right.<p>You have a natural right to communicate and perhaps a natural right to access a public system that others can access.  But no one has an inherent right to tax someone, or to fund some service.