Article from The Daily Wire by Joseph Curl.
In California’s never-ending quest to tax everything, there are new reports that the liberal state may soon levy a tax on text messages.
California state regulators are working on a plan to charge cell phone users a fee for text messaging, all in the name of collecting taxpayer money to pay for programs to make phone service cheaper to low-income residents, the San Jose Mercury Newsreported.
No one yet knows how much cell phone users would be charged, but the News says the fee would “likely would be billed as a flat surcharge per customer — one of those irksome fees at the bottom of your wireless bill — not a fee per text.”
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The News said the California Public Utilities Commission is set to vote next month, but added that some business councils object to the plan. “It’s a dumb idea,” Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council business group, told the paper. “This is how conversations take place in this day and age, and it’s almost like saying there should be a tax on the conversations we have.”
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Cali NJ NY and IL. These crooked governments can’t grab enough money for their insatiable spending. When will the people rise upagainst this?
If California would stop paying for ILLEGAL ALIENS there would be enough money to do many things like: fixing bridges & roads.
Amen….. and why not….. instead of giving $$ and freebies to all the folks in the US who are here ILLEGALLY… take those funds to build the southern borderwall…… OR…….. if they insist on letting all the illegals in……….. give them the job of building the “WALL” (without pay)…LOL
Oh California, you get worse by the minute
Telephone conversations are already taxed. Have you looked at your phone bill lately????
I agree Mexifornia…Tax everything, but the illegals…Run your tax payers “Out of Business”..
That should really get to everyone especially those under 40. If it is implemented there should be a major revolt, physical violence, that is if there are any people left in Cal with a backbone.
Let the Tax Revolucion begin!
Just like the gas tax we are fighting now. They added it to pay for roads and such when we already pay taxes for the roads and such. Now we are double taxed. Of course, it’s those who can least afford it who bear the burden. The well off never even notice.
Taxman
George Harrison
Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.
Don’t ask me what I want it for
If you don’t want to pay some more
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
And you’re working for no one but me.
Songwriters: George Harrison
Taxman lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Taxing begins with a ‘t’ and so does texting which is all the reasoning a liberal needs to tax.
Hey California – the Democrats who you keep electing have been stealing all of your tax money and now there is no money to pay your lied to pension, your structure repair, your government over function and the millions of tid bits they promised you in order to get elected. You are BANKRUPT. What do YOU do? You elect them again. You are the joke of the nation.
People deserve the government that they vote for. This is just the beginning of more taxes as the newly elected governor takes over in January. Newsom wants free health care for everyone, including illegal aliens. The San Francisco fiasco is about to be expanded across our once Golden State