Posted on 12/12/2018 5:19:16 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Pard, this is a marathon, not a sprint. Take the good news when you can get it.
Proposals like this used to irritate me. Now, I laugh. I hope it passes.
The kids are savvy enough they'll use message apps, not text messaging. This sounds like a tax on the people too ignorant to find the options and that stick with the defaults.
When you spread the wealth around, its good for everybody—Commie Barack Obama
Maybe that would slow down these “texting while driving” idiots....
Here's a wild idea: Make everyone pay for their own damn phones and any texting they do with it.
Hm...really sounds like the idiot liberals have crossed the boundary here. They typically only offend / take advantage of smaller groups so they can get reelected by the voters not in that small group. Here they are going to offend / take advantage of the majority.
Something tells me that Californians (like Washingtonians where I was born and live) will just continue to put the Dems in office. Because most voters are tragically bereft of analytical thinking these days.
Just get it over with and tax being born, breathing, walking, running, waste elimination and finally dying (dying tax to be pre-paid by prospective deceadent, of course).
I hope they do it....someday, sometimes, probably not in our lifetimes, people will wake up.
Additionally charge the sales tax on the normal retail price on the Obamaphones. People will fork over $20 or so for a ‘free’ phone, and it's exactly what any other person in the state has to do to get a ‘free’ phone with their service.
So the P3 budget has declining revs? MORE regs please. California CONtext ALERT.
At what point will Californians put on their yellow vests and let the governor really know how they feel?
can’t look up from their smart phones long enough
most special fees and taxes wind up in the general fund so democrats can fund their pet projects. That was what was behind the recent gas tax recall which was defeated in our “infinite wisdom.” Brown and the legislature spent the gas tax momeyy on bikes and such and not on road maintenance as the law required. Then they lied to us and said we need the extra money to fix roads. It’s all bait and switch.
Footnote: Cal spends 21 bill a year on services to illegal and the pension fund is under funded long-term by over 200 billion. Brown had 8 years to fix the pension problem and nada.
“State regulators are weighing a tax on text messaging to help fund a program that makes phone service available to low-income residents.”
Give them landlines. If you can’t afford
a cel phone, why the heck should I
pay for it? I was witness to a welfare
mom with 4 teenage brats. Everyone of
them had a cel phone. Their noses pressed
to the screen their entire waking moments.
I am among the approximately 4.5 million Californians
who voted for Trump. Somewhere along the line I heard
that only Texas and Florida provided more Trump votes
than California. Since Reagan was governor I have
been told that if California was a country it would be
among the top ten economic powers in the world. Today,
the Cali Democrats brag that the state’s economy is
the world’s fifth largest as if we came from out of
nowhere due to the Democrats. In truth there has been
four GOP governors (if you dubiously count Arnold as
a Republican). Anyway, if the California economy is,
indeed, the 5th largest then why on earth do we need
to tax text messages? Must be the work of the same
crowd that occasionally suggests that people be
charged for the well water which comes from their
own property. Who could these people be? To me it
goes to show that a large economy doesn’t mean the
economy is also prosperous.
this is why one can never ever ever give more taxing opportunities to any govt because they’ll take it every time...
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