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  • Obama Seeks to Unilaterally Raise Taxes for Program that Has $5 Billion of Unused Funds

    08/24/2013 11:36:35 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 18 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | August 23, 2013 - 1:49 PM | Katie McAuliffe
    The Obama administration wants to unilaterally raise taxes on phone bills nationwide, bypassing Congress. As White House Spokesman Josh Earnest put it:“Unfortunately, we haven’t seen a lot of action in Congress, so the President has advocated an administrative, unilateral action to get this done. We’re not going to wait for Congress to act.”The increased tax would go to a government-run program called E-Rate, which was ostensibly designed to connect low-income schools to high-speed Internet. … Schools applying for E-Rate subsidies run into a number of barriers that lead to delays in distributing funds and connecting schools. … Because of the...