California regulators consider charge on text messaging

[roadmaster]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are considering a plan to charge a fee for text messaging on mobile phones to help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.
The proposal is scheduled for a vote next month by the state Public Utilities Commission, the Mercury News (https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/11/omg-now-california-wants-to-tax-text-messaging/) reported.
The wireless industry and business groups have been working to defeat the plan.

“It’s a dumb idea,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council business-sponsored advocacy group. “This is how conversations take place in this day and age, and it’s almost like saying there should be a tax on the conversations we have.”
It’s unclear how much money individual consumers would be asked to pay their wireless carrier for texting services under the proposal, the newspaper said. But it is likely would be billed as a flat surcharge — not a fee per text.
Wunderman said he’s unaware of any other local, state or federal program that taxes texting. And the wireless industry has argued the state commission lacks legal grounds for doing so.

https://www.apnews.com/1380651d8c02474fb1c7d7831213a991?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

[Common]

Thats a good way to get democrats unelected, those liberal kids wont stand for that, some of them send hundreds and even into the thousands a day

[stjames1_53]

Thats a good way to get democrats unelected, those liberal kids wont stand for that, some of them send hundreds and even into the thousands a day

every body, warm or cold in CA, dey libs lak dey heavy taxes. They deserve it. They keep putting these authoritarians back into office

[Peter1469]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are considering a plan to charge a fee for text messaging on mobile phones to help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.
The proposal is scheduled for a vote next month by the state Public Utilities Commission, the Mercury News (https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/11/omg-now-california-wants-to-tax-text-messaging/) reported.
The wireless industry and business groups have been working to defeat the plan.

“It’s a dumb idea,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council business-sponsored advocacy group. “This is how conversations take place in this day and age, and it’s almost like saying there should be a tax on the conversations we have.”
It’s unclear how much money individual consumers would be asked to pay their wireless carrier for texting services under the proposal, the newspaper said. But it is likely would be billed as a flat surcharge — not a fee per text.
Wunderman said he’s unaware of any other local, state or federal program that taxes texting. And the wireless industry has argued the state commission lacks legal grounds for doing so.

https://www.apnews.com/1380651d8c02474fb1c7d7831213a991?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
Why does he consider it a dumb idea? If California and its citizens insist on handing out free stuff they have to pay for it. Suck it up, I say.

[MisterVeritis]

California is a hostile, adversary state. Does anyone care if California taxes the rest of the productive people out of the state? I am inclined to believe anyone who leaves should be ineligible to vote for at least a decade in their new domicile.

[DGUtley]

Thats a good way to get democrats unelected, those liberal kids wont stand for that, some of them send hundreds and even into the thousands a day


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[Captdon]

It's a dumb idea by definition. California is full of dumb ideas. Most of them become law. They can do as they please though.

[donttread]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are considering a plan to charge a fee for text messaging on mobile phones to help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.
The proposal is scheduled for a vote next month by the state Public Utilities Commission, the Mercury News (https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/11/omg-now-california-wants-to-tax-text-messaging/) reported.
The wireless industry and business groups have been working to defeat the plan.

“It’s a dumb idea,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council business-sponsored advocacy group. “This is how conversations take place in this day and age, and it’s almost like saying there should be a tax on the conversations we have.”
It’s unclear how much money individual consumers would be asked to pay their wireless carrier for texting services under the proposal, the newspaper said. But it is likely would be billed as a flat surcharge — not a fee per text.
Wunderman said he’s unaware of any other local, state or federal program that taxes texting. And the wireless industry has argued the state commission lacks legal grounds for doing so.

https://www.apnews.com/1380651d8c02474fb1c7d7831213a991?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

I may have to rename my state. NYS is known as the "Empire State" but I call it the "Taxation State". However, I think California is too hard to compete with when it comes to new ways to tax people

[Common]

This idea will go nowhere Im betting it would cost the legislators are fortune too