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What the h*ll?! One moment he acts like a conservative; the next moment he's kissing Obama's boots. |
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Posted on 06/05/2009 10:34:27 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is backing a federal bill that would impose a five-year ban on wireless communications and cellular telephone tax increases.
The Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2009 would put in place a moratorium on federal, state and local tax increases on wireless services and infrastructure. McCain and other sponsors contend it would help consumers and that governments have unfairly targeted wireless communications with levies and taxes. The measure has a number of backers in the U.S. Senate from both political parties.
The average tax rate for goods and services is 7.07 percent, but federal, state and local taxes comprise 15.9 percent of the typical wireless bill. The effective rate of taxation on wireless services increased four times faster than the rate on other taxable goods and services between January 2003 and January 2007.
The Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act would temporarily prohibit state and local governments from imposing any new taxes specifically on wireless services or products that are not applied to other products or services.
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What the h*ll?! One moment he acts like a conservative; the next moment he's kissing Obama's boots. |
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I’m still withholding my opinion until “Chubs” McCain weighs in on the issue.
What is with the “pretend to act like a conservative” nonsense?
If he does something good, great. Lets just take it for what it is and not psyco analyze it
A broken clock and all that.......
I don’t really understand why you put in parenthesis that he’s trying to act like a conservative. I opened this up intending to read that he’s screwing us, not attempting to help the consumer. Very misleading.
See post 5.
McCain is a broken clock.
He’s trying to act conservative so he can get re-elected.
It looks far more then “trying” to act conservative
Here is a concrete example of holding the line on taxes? What the hell else is he supposed to do?
You don’t “act like a (fill in the blank)” You either are and do, or you are not and don’t
In this case he took the conservative approach.
Again, the psyco analyzing is why there is a party called “Democrat”
McCain...............Please go home....!
Must be up for reelection in 2010.
What business is it of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT if a state government wants to raise state taxes on state residents? If the state residents don’t like it, they can vote their state representatives out of office.
If the state needs money, they will raise some taxes somewhere — why should the feds dictate which taxes can’t be raised?
Exactly!
If the feds want to do something, they should drop THEIR absurd taxes on phone and wireless services, not tell the states what to do.
Oh great.
Just another example of the Feds stepping on states' rights. But hey, they (Democrats *AND* RINOs) trampled all over Sanford yesterday, so why stop now?
Because the States now are naught but mere de facto appendages of the central Government in Washington.
I thought most of my cell phone bill was already various taxes.
“If the feds want to do something, they should drop THEIR absurd taxes on phone and wireless services, not tell the states what to do.”
The Fed tax on phones was enacted to pay for the Spanish/American War!!
Well, we lost that war, right? That’s why they speak spanish at the local McDonalds?
We must have lost that war, we’re still trying to pay for it.
Haven't you noticed? That's the Republican way with a Dem in the WH. The faux-cons came out of nowhere, right on schedule. It's 1992 all over again.
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