[KarlInOhio]

“From a consumer’s point of view, surcharges may be a wash, because if more surcharge revenues come from texting services, less would be needed from voice services,” said CPUC spokeswoman Constance Gordon in a statement.

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.

[alexander_busek]

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.

I have one question: What is texting? I mean: Am I "texting" right now, for instance?

Or am I that one person in a hundred? (But I don't have a mobile phone, either.)

Regards,

[null and void]

Also, see the part where the tax might be retroactive for five years. Nothing quite like a ex post facto law.

Too bad there is legal precedent for this.

Ex post facto taxes were imposed during the Nixon era, not a peep from the republicans...