Posted on 12/12/2018 5:19:16 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Californians may or may not type OMG at the news, but texting may soon come with an extra fee on their mobile phone bills. State regulators are weighing a tax on text messaging to help fund a program that makes phone service available to low-income residents.
A texting surcharge could help sustain the Public Purpose Program budget, which has risen to $998 million in 2017 from $670 million in 2011, according to a report from the California Public Utilities Commission. Revenue from the telecom industry that funds the program has declined to $11.3 billion last year from $16.5 billion in 2011, the CPUC report stated.
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Because one Obamaphone is never enough.
Those people that text all their waking hours ,LOL
Texas talking about the same text tax tonight on the local Austin news.
Come on Kalifornia, let’s text so the deadbeat’s can get their cell service on the cheap if not for free. Blow it up, just wait for me to leave.
orange vests?
I’ll bet high school and college kids will LOVE this..!
In fact I HOPE they do it.
I asked my SJW/Snowflake relatives in NoCal what they think of this proposed tax.
NO response so far! :>)
The One-Party state feeding its dependency class — making it bigger, better. Funding VOTES AND CONTROL.
At this point in my life i am interested in keeping my quality of life high, because of socialist assh0les destroying freedom and life, unless we actually do somthing drastic and deal with them finally, i care not how long i live anymore. Just whatever i have left to be quality living, good health, with people and pets i love.
We cant fix this fkd up world we only slow it,down. The innate nature of fallen unrepetant people is not being restrained and if we dont deal with them they will incrementally keep winning.
The world, and how theyve devolved our country, still the best in the world, btw, is a freakshow endless nightmare for faithful christians.
Texas?!
Good gad.
Btt
Meanwhile...
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/12/12/fcc-decision-deals-blow-to-california-text-tax-plan/
Just use an app like Whatsapp. It’s free.
Is my math wrong?
Revenue for the program is still 11.3 billion
Cost of the program .998 billion
Surplus +10.302 billion
And they need an additional tax because of the cost of the program? Am I missing something or are they inept? How could anyone even contemplate allowing this scam? The need isn’t there at all.
One of the most corrupt public ( sic) agencies in America, imho.
That’s good news until the board is taken over by the commies. And let’s be adults. What we are witnessing is nothing less than a communist revolution taking place as we are speaking. Thank you.
All taxes are to pay the fat pensions for govt people.
It’s just the communist way of doing things in a communist state.
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