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I just paid the monthly bill today and it was $27.08. That's a 50% increase in 8 years. I don't have better service. I don't have more bells and whistles. What could possibly have resulted in this increase?
My actual charge from Verizon for the service is only $16.45. Here is the detail for the rest of the bill:
Federal Subscriber Line Charge - $6.29
Federal Universal Service Fee - $1.09
NJ Sales Tax - $1.67
911 System/Emerg Resp Fee - $0.90
Federal Excise Tax - $0.68
A full 39% of my bill is for government taxes and fees. I don't know if Verizon is calling things Federal to mislead people, or whether these surcharges are required by the Federal government. Who knows? I'm either being screwed by a Mega-Government or a Mega-Corporation.
This is how it will work with Obamacare. Once they get millions under the control of government healthcare, your medical bills will start to have excise taxes, fees and surcharges added on. They will be small at first and will gradually grow to 40% of the total bill. Obamacare will slowly boil you in pot of water like a frog, and you won't realize it until you are cooked. But being boiled alive will not be covered.
I discussed the Verizon bill with my partner and come September, after this rental season, we will cancel phone service at the condo. We're opting out of this scam.
It's time to opt out of this scam we call America.
First there was aol. Everybody connect! Phone modem slow, but that's all anyone had back then (at home anyway). But it was a new innovation and people discovered each other and crime expanded their horizon also.
Then their service deteriorated and ppl complained for a few years.
Then the FCC totally revamped the frequency chart so they could use digital, double up the $ returns from frequency use. And, in order to justify to ham radio users what they were doing, removed the eternal "you gotta learn morse code" rule from the entrance requirements so ham radio "wouldn't die out". The result was tons of ppl got on the air that didn't know a thing...kind of like when the CB radio craze started. But again, they didn't know how to build their own sets, what made sets tick, etc. I exaggerated a little, but it got "instantized" if you get the drift; frequencies were shifted...and ham radio also got some frequencies removed! (which to me is just the start down the road to getting rid of people that can communicate off-grid).
I believe this was done around the world, but not sure.
Then cable bought out internet in the years of "monopolies return". Once that happened internet anything had all these taxes, just like the landline phones. Internet does not support old fashioned bell phones, which have great sound. This is because landline phonelines also have electrical support; but antenna phones (not cell) depend on electricity from the wall. That is why many like cell phones, besides being handy dandy. Btw they are upping the frequencies so we don't miss a call, but get more head cancers for those that use cell phones. Our country loves us, let me count the ways.