Obama Would Raise Cell Phone Taxes to Fund Broadband
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4$ per account or per owner?
i have family plan with 3 lines.
does this mean i will be paying 12$ a year?
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It would be per line of service.
So yes, you would pay an additional 12 dollars a year.
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I'm sure it would actually be far more than that....because I've never known any government project to be finished on time or under budget.....whatever they say it is going to cost, multiply that by 10 and you have the real cost, which of course means that the tax to fund it will have to increase correspondingly.
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ZpikeAug 15, 2013, 1:48 PM
And don't expect them to stop collecting the tax when the project is done either.
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Oh of course not. I don't know if it is actually true or just an urban legend, but allegedly there's a tax on landline phones that was imposed in 1898 to fund the Spanish American war which has never been repealed....
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ZpikeAug 15, 2013, 7:33 PM
Urban legend or not, it's certainly indicative of the philosophy of the federal government. Just look at what social security turned into.
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This country is on track for a revolution. At 52 years old, I may never witness this event. However, it would be my hope that my grandchildren will be able to take back this country. I'm not against immigration, but why escape the the confines of the country they came from, only to demand that this country start catering to what they left in the first place? My grandfather was from Naples Italy and refused to speak in public or teach my dad and his sister the Italian language because America was a way to start a fresh life under America's lifestyles. If I wanted to learn Italian, I would've learned it through school. Now anyone that wants to come here, forces the rest of us to adapt to their lifestyle. I would be shot to death if I went to a...
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