[MineralMan]

Yeah, I'm a bottom line sorta guy myself. The phone bill comes in, and I pay the bottom line. I get to make calls and receive calls.

I have not examined a phone bill in a long time. I don't stress over $16...not ever.

There are important issues out there to work on. My phone bill and whatever taxes are levied on it are not among those issues.

But, go for it, if you wish.

[ClaireSolt]

Telephone taxes are excise taxes levied on the basis that originally phones were luxuries. Opponents of the Spanish American war tax have won seven times in courts according to the WSJ. It is about to be a thing of the past because it taxes single calls and not the calling plans we use now.

If you do the math, you will find out these taxes take a bigger bite than the $1.40/mo the ave consumer is paying for higher priced gas. But, after all that caterwalling, who wants to hear about it?

[lonedawg]

Where are you geting a phone for $16.00?

[Rebelbase]

"I have not examined a phone bill in a long time. I don't stress over $16...not ever"

Where are you posting from, 1975?