One of these taxes
I’m sure that this report, about the decline in use of landlines, will not trigger a new discussion about the USF:
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans with traditional landline telephones has declined sharply over the past three years — a trend with ramifications for phone surveys that inform policy and market research.
About one in eight households did not have a landline telephone in the first half of 2006, according to data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected in its National Health Interview Survey. Three years earlier, it was about one in 20.
The percentage of adults using cell phones only was increasing 1 percentage point every six months from 2003 through 2005 but jumped 2 points in the most recent study, Stephen Blumberg, a senior scientist at the CDC, said Thursday.
The fact is that the Fund survived many evidences that prove it to be an unnecessary tax, and if someone failing to realize that this is a tax - I’m willing to explain it separately. It survived the fact that it didn’t contribute to the penetration of phone service to rural areas, It survive the fact that it help inefficient companies to survive although new technologies offers better and chipper solutions. And it will survive the fact that the people migrating from the landlines the fund protect to the new solutions.
It will survive because it is big pile of money that is given to politician to distribute. It took more than a 100 years to stop the government from collecting the telecom tax to fund the Spanish-American war, To cancel this fund will take much longer.
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