Idiot.
The $10/mo fee is FCC REGULATED. The cable company has to provide a signal, and, maintain it to FCC STANDARDS so your cable internet will work.
If they wanted to jew you out of more money they increase the INTERNET fee and not the CABLE TRANSPORT fee.
This has nothing to do with price inflation due to cable theives.
This has nothing to do with price inflation due to the customer splitting it off to his graphics card or TV and then complaing why his internet is sporadic, and it sucks, and said customer is a fucking moron for not knowing that its because of his hookup, and the cable company can not control how said connection works.
This has nothing to do jewing you out of more money.
It's dumbfucks like you that don't realize that if you want Internet service you need to pay someone to maintaini the pipeline.
It's dumbfucks like you that probably also would expect a DSL company to not charge you for a phone line (it has to be active for the DSL to work, same way you have to pay a cable company to maintain a cable signal to your house).
It's dumbfucks like you that scourge this earth and I think should be either shot in the head or have your balls cuttoff, so we can do mankind a favor.
Go jump out of a moving vehicle or something.