Not news: Government rapes you
News: They use the phone company as their strap-on.
My phone bill should be pretty simple. $77.49 a month for everything. It’s not.
Not including itemized calls, there’s one line of actual services. One line is some service credit. The last seven lines? Fees and taxes.
The bottom line just went up by $2.61 a month. $2.00 of that was actual service fee increase. The other $0.61? Surcharges and sales taxes. Something called the “Universal Service Fund”. And guess what? The state sales taxes go up too, because they are charging you sales tax ON TAXES AND FEES!
By the time you add up all the fees and taxes, they comprise more than 15% of the total check I write to the phone company. And these fees go up every quarter.
For the greater good, no doubt.