California Looking To Tax Texts (education, money, program, state)

[boxus]

How many people actually use standard SMS to text? Many people use apps to text.

[Dbones]

Originally Posted by boxus

How many people actually use standard SMS to text? Many people use apps to text.

every single person I know sends ordinary texts unless of course they use an iPhone. I don't know or have ever heard of a single person using an "app" to send texts. Why would you?

[boxus]

Originally Posted by Dbones

every single person I know sends ordinary texts unless of course they use an iPhone. I don't know or have ever heard of a single person using an "app" to send texts. Why would you?

Lol, opposite experience for me. I and no one I know has used the standard Sms for years, use apps like viber and whatsapp.

[rbohm]

Originally Posted by Roboteer

You should post about the things the California majority Democrats DON'T want to tax.

The list would be a lot shorter.

yeah, thats because there would be nothing on that list.


in fact here it is, the list of things california does not want to tax;


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[ryanst530]

This tax would hurt young people and those who are struggling economically the most as these are the groups most likely to do a lot of texting.

Basically, a tax on the poor to pay for the really poor.

[No_Recess]

The revenue collectors have beautiful minds to come up with these ideas. Evil and psychotic...but quite inventive.

[BeerGeek40]

An idea this stupid could only come from California.

[RowingFiend]

I love the idea. I hope California taxes their idiotic citizens into bankruptcy. They voted for it.

[Dbones]

NOT SO FAST: Feds Moves to BLOCK California’s Text Message Tax

The Federal Communications Commission ruled against a recent California proposal that would impose a tax on text messages this week; setting the stage for a legal showdown between the Golden State and the federal government.


The decision by the FCC officially designated text messages as “information services” and not “telecommunications services,” essentially prohibiting the state government from taxing the exchanges.

[T-310]

Originally Posted by DRob4JC

OMG! Now California wants to tax text-messaging? State regulators say surcharge on text messaging would help fund programs that make phone service accessible to the poor

State regulators have been ginning up a scheme to charge a fee for text messaging on mobile phones to help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor. The wireless industry and business groups have been working to defeat the proposal, now scheduled for a vote next month by the California Public Utilities Commission.

“It’s a dumb idea,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council business-sponsored advocacy group. “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.”

Don't give them any more ideas...

A dense California Public Utilities Commission report laying out the case for the texting surcharge says the Public Purpose Program budget has climbed from $670 million in 2011 to $998 million last year. But the telecommunications industry revenues that fund the program have fallen from $16.5 billion in 2011 to $11.3 billion in 2017, it said.

“This is unsustainable over time,” the report says, arguing that adding surcharges on text messaging will increase the revenue base that funds programs that help low-income Californians afford phone service.

Does anyone even ask how the budget increased almost 50% in 6 years?

I bet I can guess, in part, how the revenue decreased... people migrating out of the state being replaced by illegal aliens...

Oh well... This is what they want... give it to them.


Here's my question... I assume this "phone service" to the poor is cell phone service... will they be taxed for texting also?

Just more free stuff for deadbeats.