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California Now Wants to Tax Your Text Messages. Here's Why
Fortune ^ | 12/12/2018 | Lucas Laursen

Posted on 12/12/2018 9:52:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/12/2018 9:52:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Something that might finally turn millennials away from Democrats?


2 posted on 12/12/2018 9:53:11 AM PST by Ingtar
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FROM THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS:

State regulators say surcharge on text messaging would help fund programs that make phone service accessible to the poor
3 posted on 12/12/2018 9:53:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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This is a tax on free speech.

It will not pass Constitutional muster...............


4 posted on 12/12/2018 9:54:29 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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-—another “agency” to add to the list—

https://patriotpost.us/pages/256-list-of-state-of-california-agencies


5 posted on 12/12/2018 9:55:47 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is where socialism goes. Tax the hell out of everything we do, and give fascism, filth and chaos in return.


6 posted on 12/12/2018 9:56:11 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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Public union pensions will be paid.

That is all you really need to know.


7 posted on 12/12/2018 9:56:51 AM PST by 2banana (Were you)
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Apologies to The Police and Sting


Every text you make
Every breath you take
I will be watching you ... annnd
I will be taxing you .. You.. YOUUUUU!!!


california is a boobocracy built on a puddle of quicksand and policies that most would call insane.


8 posted on 12/12/2018 9:57:54 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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It will not pass Constitutional muster...............

... If we had a SCOTUS that followed the constitution. If recent days are any indication, I wouldn't bet on them overturning any tax California put forth.

9 posted on 12/12/2018 9:58:14 AM PST by CatOwner
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How do I invest in yellow vest makers?


10 posted on 12/12/2018 9:59:35 AM PST by atomic_dog
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To: Red Badger

If they’re already taxing voice calls (and apparently getting away with it), wouldn’t that also be a tax on free speech?


11 posted on 12/12/2018 9:59:50 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: SeekAndFind

More Marxist redistribution of wealth. In today’s world, we call it....

**** BUYING VOTES FROM A DEPENDENCY CLASS ****


12 posted on 12/12/2018 10:00:52 AM PST by EagleUSA
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Every breath you take

That is the next step. Tax the oxygen you inhale. Tax the CO2 you exhale.

13 posted on 12/12/2018 10:01:10 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: SeekAndFind

Too many taxes
Too many laws


14 posted on 12/12/2018 10:01:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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If that’s the case, they will text phone calls by the minute.


15 posted on 12/12/2018 10:02:50 AM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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would help fund programs that make phone service accessible to the poor
I thought Obama took care of all that years ago ...
16 posted on 12/12/2018 10:02:54 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Doxx the cell numbers of Politicos and family members. Text them each about a million times.


17 posted on 12/12/2018 10:03:28 AM PST by calico_thompson (Vanity sarcasm)
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It’s a communications tax. Has nothing to do with free speech. Thank bam my friends this. He opened the door by taxing health care.


18 posted on 12/12/2018 10:04:39 AM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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Ronald Reagan — Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.


19 posted on 12/12/2018 10:05:16 AM PST by dhs12345
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There are plenty of taxes on your phone already and those have somehow passed muster.

In fact my cell phone bill is about 20-25% taxes and fees.


20 posted on 12/12/2018 10:07:51 AM PST by reed13k
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