This is so depressing. I pay $25 for 12mbps. And even that's a half-off special only good for the first six months.
The most galling thing for me is that my parents get 100 Mbps fiber with phone service at their house for around $60 or $70 month. And this is in a small town (<10,000 people) in the midwest. The difference is they're lucky enough to have a visionary small ISP that chooses to reinvest in its product rather than sit back and milk a quasi-monopoly.
Edit: I shopped around, inspired by this post. Comcast advertises much lower rates, however they are "for the first 6 months" and they are for TV subscribers only. Verizon offers some staggeringly bad deals. You're just kind of SOL when it comes to good broadband in most of the US (just like mobile phone options).