[HoosierHawk]

If I still have to pay about $6 amonth on my phone bill for the war of 1812 you can pay a few pennys for 9/11.

I don't understand the $6 monthly fee for the War of 1812. Why's that?

[Fresh Wind]

I don't understand the $6 monthly fee for the War of 1812. Why's that?

That's a sarcastic reference to the long distance telephone tax that was imposed to pay for the Spanish American War in 1898. The tax outlasted the war by more than a century and was finally repealed in 2006.