California considering text messaging tax

25 Comments on California considering text messaging tax

1. More legalized theft. They are so good at it.

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2. Instead of being bright enough to realize raising taxes lowers state income, on the other hand, lowering taxes raises income for the state. Ronald Ragan proved that when he was governor. Dimwits are too stupid to try what has worked. Raising taxes only lowers state income!

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3. Dust off your landlines. lol

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4. @MJA ~ texting’s a bitch w/ a dial phone! 😉

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5. btw, goes to show ya that they’ve stored all your texts for at least the last 5 years, don’t it?

   (… think maybe I’ll go back to Morse Code, or semaphore, or sumpin’… smoke signals?)

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6. What a brilliant idea. I can’t believe nobody ever thought of taxing a phone for the purposes of subsidizing people who don’t have one.

   California needs to keep up the good work!

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7. That would be glorious! All the hipsters who have enough money to buy their own phones finding out that they are now “the rich” and it’s time they pay their fair share so the leeches of society can have cell phones that are tax exempt (the only taxes the poor pay are on cigs, beer & lotto).

   Why that could even start a riot like unto what is going on in France. Lovely; just lovely.

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8. Do the recipients of the low-income phones have to pay taxes on their texts?

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9. Get those yellow vests on California sheep!

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10. One penny per text and Cali will be solvent in about three days.

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11. Just give them Obamaphones

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12. Too bad they couldn’t start taxing stupidity in California, the politicians would be “dead broke” within a week or 2.

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13. What about people from out of state who text someone in California, do they get taxed also?

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14. I would almost be for this if the tax was based on the number of texts. I drives me nuts when someone texts me 5 times in two minutes with little snippets that could have been contained in a single text or email! (my wife is the biggest multi-texter)

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15. Good on California, tax those morons.

    I don’t understand why people think they need a cell phone, especially a smartphone. All of these gadgets can be turned on to listen to your conversations. Who knows who is listening!

    I am not available 24/7. I carry a dumb phone for emergencies. And I feel superior, exceptional, outstanding because I’m not glued to a phone.

    Parents need them to keep track of the kids? So now cell phones are babysitters.

    rant
    today a guy almost stepped into the street right in front of us, his head was down fiddling with the phone. He looked up at the last second and stopped. He wasn’t even crossing at a light.

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16. SOMEbody’s gotta pay for all the illegal alien moochers.

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17. Oh good gawd no. Over taxed liberals will flee to Portland and bring their socialist values with them. No thanks. We’ve already been ruined by transplanted liberals. More of them is the last thing we need.

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18. Better idea: tax social media posts since these are predominantly skewed to the left’s agenda…thereby proving that you can lead a horse to water but never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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19. Zonga, your dumb phone can be turned-on, also, even if the power switch is off. And you’ll never know it even happened. The only guarantee against eaves-dropping is to place it in a Faraday cage, preferably with the power off.

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20. Thanks for scaring me, Jimmy. I keep my phone buried in my purse.

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21. A tax on, “teenagers being teenagers” – fascinating!

    – Spock –

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22. They should tax search engines that harvest data for commercial purposes, and the advertising that results. Especially the advertising that results from eavesdropping, and the download is paid for by the viewer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OgkjcW0g4

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23. I prefer talking Paper. Just write it down then tear it up! Works for me. Use to do that at work. too many ears.

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24. Jimmy,
    I put a tin foil hat on my dumb phone.

25. I’ve done that too, Zonga. Although lately, I leave it out because I want them to hear my rants. They’re no doubt hearing millions of similar outbursts from people’s phones across the country. “Idiots!”