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School Internet Plan Would Raise Phone Taxes 17.2%

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Forget about the %

Globhead

Nov 17, 2014, 2:08 PM
Why are federal agencies trying to decide what local schools spend?

And why are phones simultaneously excise-taxed as a luxury item while subsidized for poor people as a necessity of life?
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T Bone

Nov 17, 2014, 11:40 PM
"And why are phones simultaneously excise-taxed as a luxury item while subsidized for poor people as a necessity of life?"

I imagine it is the same reason that government increases the tax on cigarettes to encourage people to quit, and then turns around and claims that the extra money is to go to pay for 'health care for children'...but no one ever asks 'how are they going to fund that program if everyone decides to quit smoking?'
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