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Obama's proposed 2010 budget juices carriers for more cash

Seth

MD Party Room
There's no easy answer to erasing a staggering trillion-plus dollar deficit in a federal budget, but you've got to start somewhere -- and Obama's looking at the nation's wireless carriers as cash cows just waiting to be milked. The President's proposed budget for 2010 calls for an increase in spectrum license user fees from $50 million to $200 million, with further increases to $550 million over the course of the next decade, all of which would be on top of the billions carriers have already shelled out in spectrum auctions. A good way to bring in some extra cash? Yeah, probably, but considering that carriers will be more than happy to pass the increases on to consumers, let's just be straight: it's a tax.
Obama's proposed 2010 budget juices carriers for more cash - Engadget

I dont find this to be very good news,first Americans are getting riped off with text messages and data,now a new tax might be coming to add to the cost of a already over priced cellphone plans.Ok I know America has way better cellphone plans than canada(3 year contracts) and other parts of the world but this still sucks...
 

NoEffex

Seth's On A Boat.
Horrible idea. You need to cut income taxes and make a national sales tax, so everyone gets taxed. You spend more, you get taxed more, and if you spend less, you get taxed less, no questions asked. Simple and fair. Would also mean the undocumented "citizens" of the USA pay taxes, as well.
 

eighty4

Active Member
Horrible idea. You need to cut income taxes and make a national sales tax, so everyone gets taxed. You spend more, you get taxed more, and if you spend less, you get taxed less, no questions asked. Simple and fair. Would also mean the undocumented "citizens" of the USA pay taxes, as well.

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