11-12-2015, 02:33 PM
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Location: California
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Originally Posted by woj
It's funded from that "universal service fee" that is added to your phone bill, it's not a huge amount, but it's just another tax called by another name...
so you have a $50 phone service, but your bill ends up $70 with all the taxes and weird fees added on...
you don't see anything wrong with that?
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Originally Posted by sandman!
you might be a little slow because we get taxed to provide those phones look at your cell phone bill if you have one.
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Whatever taxes you are paying on your cell phone bill, none of that goes to fund "Obama phones"
"Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it. "
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