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California mulls text tax on mobile messages
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| 12/12/18
| Kate Gibson
Posted on 12/12/2018 3:45:39 PM PST by NoLibZone
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:45:39 PM PST
by
NoLibZone
To: NoLibZone
I heard they’re working on Breath Counter oh wait there’s an App ,LOL
To: NoLibZone
Liberals have found another moving target to tax.
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:48:02 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: NoLibZone
So the mobile company will monitor your texting and add that tax to your bill?
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:48:57 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: NoLibZone
Won’t be long before RATS tax nose boogers.
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:51:42 PM PST
by
dforest
(Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
To: SkyDancer
They voted for this. They got it.
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:51:49 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
To: NoLibZone
How about a tax on breathing?
Wait! What? That’s what a carbon tax is?
Never mind.
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:52:03 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
To: NoLibZone
They can ‘take it all’ and it still will not be enough.
Pitchforks & torches when?
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:53:08 PM PST
by
glasseye
("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
To: NoLibZone
Illegals need phones too!!111
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:57:39 PM PST
by
LeoTDB69
To: NoLibZone
The last time I set foot in Kalifornia was about 25 years ago...and that was simply to change planes.I'll never again set foot in that filthy,depraved cesspool.
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:58:50 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
To: NoLibZone
How will they achieve this??
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:59:14 PM PST
by
originalbuckeye
('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
To: NoLibZone
"From a consumer's point of view, surcharges may be a wash, because if more surcharge revenues come from texting services, less would be needed from voice services," a CPUC spokesperson told the newspaper in a statement. Now I need to clean my screen and keyboard! NOTHING from any government entity EVER reduces in cost or is kept at low cost. Increases in all fees is an inevitable outcome - see the parable of the "Camel's Nose"!
Also consider that California's implicit desire is free immigration from the Latin American countries and that they are, almost without exception, poor. Thus the need for the subsidy will be continuous. But remember, this is a double secret operation!
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posted on
12/12/2018 3:59:25 PM PST
by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: SkyDancer
I am sure they all ready know exactly how many texts you send and receive.
It just of matter of billing you for them.
To: NoLibZone
Jokes aside somene has to be a sick bastard to even contemplate such a thing.
To: LeoTDB69
Illegals need phones too!!111 Illegals need FREE phones too.
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posted on
12/12/2018 4:00:35 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Have a McClane Christmas : "Now I have a machine gun HO-HO - HO".)
To: NoLibZone
Please do it California. Lol
To: SkyDancer
"So the mobile company will monitor your texting and add that tax to your bill?" The carriers transport your messages, and, yes, they count them and know the bandwidth they utilize etc. So they already have that and apply whatever taxes the feds and state govs require them to pass along.
Carriers already are required to add taxes to fund subsidies for rural areas. There is also a lifeline program for qualifying low income people. I don't know details but programs like this exist already. Not enough for California.
In fact there used to be an excise tax the carriers had to pass long that was left over to pay for the Spanish American War. Teddy Roosevelt got it passed and it wasn't stopped until 2005!
To: Fai Mao
Voting system in California is so corrupt and one-party-sided that voting there is no different than voting in the old Soviet Union.
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posted on
12/12/2018 4:03:29 PM PST
by
doomtrooper99
(Mr Truman, you did not finish the job)
To: NoLibZone
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posted on
12/12/2018 4:03:58 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
To: doomtrooper99
“Voting system in California is so corrupt and one-party-sided that voting there is no different than voting in the old Soviet Union.”
The people there still voted this in and did not stop it when it started.
They didn’t even to my knowledge raise a mild protest.
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posted on
12/12/2018 4:06:05 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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