California GOP Pushes Back on Plan to Tax Texts

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 California GOP Pushes Back on Plan to Tax Texts
Posted By Susan Crabtree On December 14, 2018 @ 5:00 am 

California Republicans, still smarting from their big midterm losses at the polls, are ridiculing a plan by Democratic-dominated state regulators to tax text messaging on all mobile phones—a proposal drawing fire from Silicon Valley's wireless industry and business groups.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which has jurisdiction over telecommunications, is set to vote next month on a proposal that would impose a fee on every Californian's text messages services.



URL to article: https://freebeacon.com/politics/california-gop-pushes-back-plan-tax-texts/

[skeeter]

As generally popular as such a move would be it won't matter because thanks to our fair & balanced media no one in the state will ever hear about it.