Bill Introduced To Repeal Federal Telephone Tax
May 2, 2005, 1:33 PM by (staff)
Gary Miller, a Representative from California, has introduced a Bill in the U.S. House to repeal a 3% federal tax on telephone service. The bill, if approved, would finally end what was supposed to be a temporary tax to pay for the Spanish American war of 1898. Since then the tax's scope and severity has been changed many times, most recently lowering the tax to 3% but extending it to wireless telephone calls. Numerous attempts have been made to repeal the bill in the past and have failed. The same fate is likely for this attempt, seeing as how the federal government is currently operating at a deficit.
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this tax has been for many years a large moral issue for conscientience objectors. Many had stopped paying this tax long ago. The telephone companies were not allowed to disconnect service if they refused to pay but the information would be passed o...
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im game for anything that lowers my taxes
That's my rep 😁 Woo-hoo!
he's also trying to clear up badly congested intersections in south OC. Practical stuff.
he's also trying to clear up badly congested intersections in south OC. Practical stuff.
telephone tax in 1898?
Is anyone else surprised to hear that enough people had telephones in 1898 that the government decided to establish a tax? Maybe only rich people had phones back then, so the tax was designed to target them? I didn't think telephone use became widespread until after the turn of the century...
i just cant believe that its from the spanish american war! i think thats ridiculous!
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It wasnt a tax on telephones!! Read the article again.... sloooooowly. 😳
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