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California proposes a plan to tax text messages
CNN Business ^ | 12-12-2018 | Heather Kelly

Posted on 12/13/2018 4:19:10 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182

San Francisco (CNN Business)California regulators want to tax text messages to increase funds for programs that bring connectivity to underserved residents.

A new surcharge proposed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) wouldn't be a per-text tax, but a monthly fee based on a cellular bill that includes any fees for text-message services. Most carriers offer a flat fee option for texting, and already charge a similar fee for other services included in the bill — such as phone calls. The exact structure of the charge would vary from carrier to carrier........

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; cellphones; postedseveraltimes; taxes
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I hope the news of this tax spreads widely. I am sure it will be very popular,
1 posted on 12/13/2018 4:19:10 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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California regulators want to tax text messages to increase funds for programs that bring connectivity to underserved residents.

Because one free Carlos Slim Obamaphone is never enough.

2 posted on 12/13/2018 4:20:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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“I hope the news of this tax spreads widely. I am sure it will be very popular, “

I used to cringe every time California did something politically stupid. However, now, I relax secure in the knowledge they have done something that brings them closer to revolt. (Of course, like our open border with the rest of the third world, California’s open border allows them to export their potential revolutionaries to other states; slowing down the pace of the political pendulum. Not sure how this will all play out.)


3 posted on 12/13/2018 4:24:12 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Those Californians sure LOVE to be taxed. They are so civilized, not like those French.

I guess we get to pay these CA taxes on the free Obama-phones used in CA(including those that illegals get)


4 posted on 12/13/2018 4:24:20 AM PST by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Bostonians dumped tea in the harbor.

Will Mexifornians dump Apples?

5 posted on 12/13/2018 4:24:36 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Again?

It’s Cully4neeya, who cares?


6 posted on 12/13/2018 4:26:44 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Don’t care. California voters have made their bed, I don’t care what crazy stuff their far-left legislature and Governor foist on them.


7 posted on 12/13/2018 4:29:37 AM PST by Trump20162020
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Those Californians sure LOVE to be taxed

Over the past ten years, approximately five million people have moved away from the state of California. The ones who remain love to be taxed ,

8 posted on 12/13/2018 4:29:42 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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"California regulators want to tax text messages to increase funds for programs that bring connectivity to underserved residents.”

Taxing out of country remittances would be good but then their constituents would be mad. So mad they may go back to their home country and not vote for the Democrat ticket.
9 posted on 12/13/2018 4:37:01 AM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: Anti-Bubba182

http://www.ocregister.com/fcc-decision-deals-blow-to-california-text-tax-plan


10 posted on 12/13/2018 4:40:47 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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That is the idea. Even snowflake stoners eventually have enough.


11 posted on 12/13/2018 4:46:04 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Next, Commiefornia will tax the air you breathe.


12 posted on 12/13/2018 4:54:21 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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Good way to lose your youth voter base.


13 posted on 12/13/2018 4:56:27 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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Seems like two areas to tax to pay for them would be rather simple changes...

For the utilities commission, simply charge the sales tax on the retail price of the cell phone they’re getting for ‘free’ (aka on the taxpayer dime.) After all, everyone ELSE has to pay the sales taxes on phones carriers give away. And trust me, no one’s going to walk away going ‘$20 in taxes is too much to pay’, they’ll just whine a little.

And while they’re at it, also remove the free bags from food stamp recipients. The rest of us have to schlep the bags to the market, they can too.


14 posted on 12/13/2018 4:57:27 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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I wish my state would tax only text messages sent by teenagers. Double if they’re in a car.


15 posted on 12/13/2018 4:59:38 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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Next, Commiefornia will tax the air you breathe.

I know this was sarcasm, but in a state where citizens are not allowed to collect rain water, who knows what those idiots will propose.

16 posted on 12/13/2018 4:59:53 AM PST by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Good for them!

You like that big government every election? Then embrace the suck!

We should mass text people there every day just to get them to respond and lose money.


17 posted on 12/13/2018 5:04:21 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Anti-Bubba182

They just want to make sure EVERYONE shows up for the ‘revolution’ at the right time and in the right place!


18 posted on 12/13/2018 5:06:01 AM PST by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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They already DO tax the air. It’s what the CO2 tax does. They have it!


19 posted on 12/13/2018 5:08:56 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Democrats: Party over Country.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Unfortunately, no it won’t. It will be some fixed taxed, buried in with all the others, and the youth voter base, half who probably have their phones paid for by mom and dad, will never even notice.


20 posted on 12/13/2018 5:11:42 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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