California Considers Plan to Tax Text Messages

I'm kind of hoping to see it gets passed just to see how many people would actually leave SoCal. There are so many people here that it has become ridiculous. Traffic everywhere even on Sundays. Our roads simply cannot handle the cars and even foot traffic.
 
Meh, the Revolutionary War was a classic example of the rich manipulating the ignorant into fighting a war for the gain of the rich. Just have to look past the idealized 4th grade teachings.


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I love the weather, but there is little else to love any more.

I will agree with your comment on the worse aspect, "mental illness isn’t only accepted, it’s preferred", as I see way to much of it in recent years.

i was in sacramento....even the weather had gotten to a point of blech
 
I'm kind of hoping to see it gets passed just to see how many people would actually leave SoCal. There are so many people here that it has become ridiculous. Traffic everywhere even on Sundays. Our roads simply cannot handle the cars and even foot traffic.


I remember around 30 years ago, after a late night at a customers site. I was driving home at 2:00 in the morning, and there were only a couple other cars on the freeway. Sometimes on a curve in the road, I didn't even see any other cars on the same side.

Now, even at 2:00 am, there is what most people would call heavy traffic.
In California we'd call it light traffic since most people are able to drive the speed limit at 2:00 in the morning. Normally you'd be lucky to be going 35 mph during the day.
 
Isn't this an infringement on a person's 1st Amendment rights? Does this unfairly penalize individuals that cannot speak on the phone due to various disabilities and need to text in order to communicate with others via phone?
If you point out something that isn't taxed in California while something else is, they'll fix it by just taxing both things.
 
so i know this is a tangent.... but i have never understood why anyone thinks that california could actually fall off into the ocean.
i know a lot of people use it for a joke... but there are people that seriously believe it to be possible.

California is on two tectonic plates. Noth American and Pacific. The Pacific plate is sliding northward. LA and some of the coast are on this plate. It won't actually "fall" of into the ocean but LA is moving in that direction. It supposedly will eventually wind up off the coast of Seattle. There is a misconception, maybe a joke, that there will be an earthquake and that part will break off.
 
If they drive out enough people maybe it will be safe to return home someday. I mean, in theory, at some point they should have to revise the laws to ATTRACT people and business.
 
I love the weather, but there is little else to love any more.

I will agree with your comment on the worse aspect, "mental illness isn’t only accepted, it’s preferred", as I see way to much of it in recent years.

If those guys are screwed up let them alone they mean well.
 
California is on two tectonic plates. Noth American and Pacific. The Pacific plate is sliding northward. LA and some of the coast are on this plate. It won't actually "fall" of into the ocean but LA is moving in that direction. It supposedly will eventually wind up off the coast of Seattle. There is a misconception, maybe a joke, that there will be an earthquake and that part will break off.

don't ruin our dreams damnit! also the myth/joke is mostly about san fran since a large portion of the city is built on reclaimed land. :p
 
The California Public Utilities Commission may vote to approve taxing text messages next month as a means of collecting additional funding for “public telecommunications programs like the 911 service and subsidized phone rates for low-income Californians.” They estimate the tax would cost consumers an additional $1.40 per $20 of texting charges. Critics say the state already has enough cash.

“Taxing texts isn’t just regressive, it’s also unnecessary. The state is flush with cash, while ordinary Californians are struggling. The idea of increasing taxes on anything right now is absurd,” state Assembly member Marie Waldron, a Republican from north of San Diego, said. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, a trade organization whose members include companies like AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, told NBC News they oppose the measure, as well.

Maybe someone can enlighten me as to how things work in the People's Republic of California, but in the rest of the United States 991 service and subsidized (lifeline) services are paid using taxes collected by the Feds under the Universal Service Fund Recovery Charge, managed by the USAC. Thats what all those little fees are on every cellphone and landline bill.
 
California is just so progressive and ahead of their time with lawmaking. Look at the innovation.
 
They just dropped the proposal. After FCC ruled that it is not taxable.
What a bunch of idiots lol (California I mean)...
I'm so ashamed of living in this Godforsaken state.

 
LOL not gonna pass. Oh wait, dead on arrival, not surprised.
 
It's the fact that this idea crossed their minds is frightening...what will they think of next to tax?
 
CA is getting to the point that visiting there would be considered vacationing abroad.


you mean like the texas travel slogan from years ago.....


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I'm kind of hoping to see it gets passed just to see how many people would actually leave SoCal. There are so many people here that it has become ridiculous. Traffic everywhere even on Sundays. Our roads simply cannot handle the cars and even foot traffic.

Absolutely not. The rest of America doesn't want your liberal nut jobs. Stay in Kalifornia.
 
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