Text messages might be next to face California tax, reports say (unemployment, budget)

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by Mr_Geek

Heard they won't charge for individual texts so a charged would simply be added monthly for every line that has texting option. So even if you only use imessage, WhatsApp etc you will still be charged this tax.

For now, but this is a slippery slope. Expect more tax hostility as the willing and able continue to flee the state and the state needs to make up for lost tax revenue.

[aslowdodge]

Originally Posted by ysr_racer

Text messages might be next to face California tax, reports say

https://www.foxnews.com/us/californi...es-reports-say

California state regulators have been working on a plan to charge mobile phone users a text messaging fee intended to fund programs that make phone service accessible to the low-income residents, reports said Tuesday.

The California Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to vote on the proposal next month, but critics have already come out against the scheme, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

“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.”

Don’t they already. Get free service with the free phones?

[aslowdodge]

Originally Posted by payutenyodagimas

i know there are a lot of apps to text and use 1 or 2 of them

am just wondering how they would tax texting, when you dont pay for it

as some poster said..you dont tax free speech

Until they can figure out a way....
And that will be to help the poor that don’t have a voice....

[Hemlock140]

This is no different than the $100 tax on electric vehicles, to make up for the loss of funding from gas tax, when no gas is used. As technology and other changes take place, the resulting loss of revenue has to be made up in other ways.

[payutenyodagimas]

Originally Posted by Hemlock140

This is no different than the $100 tax on electric vehicles, to make up for the loss of funding from gas tax, when no gas is used. As technology and other changes take place, the resulting loss of revenue has to be made up in other ways.

CA already tax the monthly fees, whether prepaid or postpaid

[k374]

what's next? tax for every web page you visit? this is the most asinine thing I have heard.. the Dems are getting nuttier by the minute

and low income includes illegals so maybe we should put a memo for those illegally crossing our border, pick up your free cell phone before boarding the bus to your hotel

[Finper]

Originally Posted by MammothLove

Any one who, at this point, doesn't understand why tRump, et al is one of the worst travesties in U.S. history is blind ... willfully or not ... blind.

That’s not answering the question. Guess you got nothing....

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by MammothLove

90% of the politicians in America are what? Supporting a maniac in the White House?

Some interesting ones who are not:

GHW Bush, GW Bush, Jeb Bush, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, Colin Powell, HR McMasters, John Kasich, Condolezza Rice, George Shultz, Ben Sasse, John McCain, David Brooks, David French, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, George Will ... I could continue ...

... all conservative GOP who despise Donald J Trump.

[Finper]

Originally Posted by MammothLove

90% of the politicians in America are what? Supporting a maniac in the White House?

Hardly....

[payutenyodagimas]

back to taxing text folks