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I for one won't miss them at all: - $tevie - 05-26-2006
I swear my phone bill is about 33% taxes. So I think this is good news:
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-05-25T173907Z_01_N25148972_RTRIDST_0_ECONOMY-TELECOMS-TAX-UPDATE-2.XML
Re: I for one won't miss them at all: - Seacrest - 05-26-2006
Meh.
They'll find some new way to screw us.
They always do.
Re: I for one won't miss them at all: - bazookaman - 05-26-2006
wow. I wish mine was 33%. Mine's more like 50% taxes.
Re: I for one won't miss them at all: - mikebw - 05-26-2006
Hmm, sounds like my paycheck, but backwards. I get about 66% of my earnings, that is to say.
Re: I for one won't miss them at all: - trisho. - 05-26-2006
I guess this applies to cell phones as well because long distance is included? Just wondering because I don't have a landline but I have about $25 in taxes each month on my mobile phone bill.
Re: I for one won't miss them at all: - Lux Interior - 05-26-2006
The telecommunications industry hailed the decision in the long-fought battle to kill a 1898 law, established as a luxury tax on wealthy Americans who owned telephones and to help finance costs of waging the Spanish-American war.
Too bad Strom isn't around to defend one of the laws he wrote.
Re: I for one won't miss them at all: - Sam3 - 05-29-2006
But phone bills still have lots of phone-company added surcharges. My Talk America bill lists a 'payment processing fee'. Great, so I need to pay them to take my money.
Cell phones, at least Nextel, don't have such stupid surcharges. Maybe it's time for a VoIP phone.