Yes, because I am paying Verizon to connect me to Netflix. If Netflix's traffic is so high, it's because lots of people want to pay Verizon to connect them to Netflix. If Netflix is so expensive, Verizon would need to raise their prices for customers; possibly offering low-bandwidth customers lower prices. If Verizon wants to give me free internet access, then it would make perfect sense to charge Netflix to deliver to me. Otherwise, Netflix paying large sums to Verizon is only going to ensure that we won't get alternatives to Netflix, because the barrier to entry will be too high for smaller startups. And if bandwidth is the issue, do you think Verizon should pay companies it primarily uploads, but not downloads, to (such as cloud hosting services)?

Personally, I'd really love to see Netflix start using encrypted peer-to-peer to distribute the bandwidth. See if Verizon would be willing to cripple all VPN and HTTPS users to try and shake down Netflix.