California Wants To Tax Text Messages

The Looney Left Report

Commiefornia, oops, excuse me, California is increasingly making it more expensive to live in the state with their high taxes, cost of living (rents, vehicle registration, licenses, etc.), fuel and other things. And now there's a new scheme to gouge people out of their money.

The state's regulators now want to impose a surcharge on text messages!

According to The Mercury News:

Texting your sweetheart that you’re on your way home? California may soon charge you for that. 

This is no LOL matter, critics say. 

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.” 

It’s unclear how much individual consumers would be asked to pay their wireless carrier for texting services under the proposal. But it 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. 

Business groups, including the Bay Area Council, California Chamber of Commerce and Silicon Valley Leadership Group and others opposing the idea, calculated the new charges for wireless consumers could total about $44.5 million a year.

Actor James Woods had this to say about the scheme:

California wants to tax text messages now, to fund free phones for illegals- uh, sorry - “low income” users...

Since Commiefornia is a one-party state, you know darn well who has the power of appointing Public Utilities Commission members! The Democrat Party, of course!

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