One billion a year taken away from California's working folk so others can have free phone service? WTF!
Oxygen is next.
Oh what the heck, just skip to the brass tacks and put a surcharge/tax on breathing .... think of all the money that would roll in for Libs to squander.
Whoa. Read the comments.
Love the one about having a tea party with politicians instead of tea....
Classic lib insanity and insatiable greed on full display....
California: The world’s largest insane asylum.
When the last family is loading up & ready to leave the state....I wonder if they will have caught on by then?
One billion a year taken away from California’s working folk so others can have free phone service? WTF!
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The welfare class need to be kept right where they are, stuck on the dole. It’s all about voting blocks.
Give them more off the backs of the productive class? Of course! The last thing we need is a little bit of hardship to spur people on.
California is one of only 4 states that I’ve never been to. It must be a wonderful place. I can’t understand why anyone stays.
I want the yellow vest concession. Or should it be orange hunting vests?
How about taxing illegal alians for being noncitizens.Tax them 20% of their welfare if they don’t have the proper proof of citizenship.
California’s expenditures would plunge quickly.Saving everyone else a lot of tax dollars no longer going to a crooked government.
a lol moment. Hope they charge $ 10,000 per text
Just the other day I was thinking that California doesn’t have enough taxes.
Notice the weasel word "may". If you are the one person in a hundred who calls rather than texts you might pay less in taxes. Maybe.
Also, see the part where the tax might be retroactive for five years. Nothing quite like a ex post facto law.
Too bad the article writer was too lazy to include a tax rate as a percentage or per text fee.
Liberals always look at things through a static lens: Tax texts and people will stop texting and start calling...
CalaTaxachussetts.
“Politicians say more taxes will solve EVERYTHING” - ‘Ball Of Confusion’ by The Temptations, 1971.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmRsWdK0PRI
47 years later...
No, my sweetie is texting me.
Not the other way around.
And California is going to make the women folk real angry if they tax their little texty phones.
“But they add that under the regulators’ proposal the charge could be applied retroactively for five years”
I guess that pesky prohibition against ex post facto laws doesn’t apply to taxes disguised as “fees”.
Marxism, liberalism, and outright theft. Tax and spend with no end or limits — welcome to our tyrannical, one-party state. Buying control, votes and a dependency class.
Ok folks, lets use the proper term. It is not a “surcharge”, it is a TAX.
You know, I just cannot see any other way out of this problem other than raising taxes. Nope, not a single other way to solve this. It's a real conundrum it is.