A letter writer to The Fresno Bee offers a proposal that could control the growing number of text messages and help our government at the same time: impose a 5-cent tax on each text message sent.
You can read Daniel Schwartz's letter by clicking here.
This would be a tax mostly on young people. The Nielsen Company reports that the typical American teenager with a cell phone sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008. That's almost 80 messages a day, which doubled the average of a year earlier.
Most young people do not work, and they will be taxed? The parents are flipping the bill so it's an added tax on parents.
Big Government is the problem. BOTH R's and D's abuse led us into this mess.
How about taxing people with dumb ideas? We would end up with a State and Federal budget surplus in a matter of days.
We already pay to text message and if they were taxed 5 cents for each one most teenagers wouldn't be allowed to text anymore. I don't have a problem paying more taxes if the yahoos handling the money knew how to handle it which they clearly don't.
I believe we need a moratorium on all new taxes until the ones we have demonstrate a rational return. Additionally, we should should refrain from keeping the concept, as we have experienced it, alive and well with ideas of new and improved applications. Domestically speaking, by the time President Obama is done destroying this economy, the children who will suffer in it will have been assigned enough tax burden to enjoy for many years to come.
3 for 3 Rich is a good day at the ballyard and on the blog.Good to have you in the lineup.
Knowing that Mr. Schwartz is a high-school teacher and probably fed up with kids texting in class, I assumed that his letter was facetious. My son, who knows him fairly well, agreed. Are we the only ones who interpreted it that way?
We should most defiantly tax text messaging. we should also tax blogs to and blog responses what is the difference. I am being sarcastic btw.