From the Ministry of, “no stone left unturned.” The party of Darwin and evolution’s Empire State acolytes has discovered a new state power. It’s okay; they claim it is for the good of the people.
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Texting Tax is Dead Thanks to Trump’s FCC – But To Democrats Raising Taxes Never Dies
Regulators have decided to find something to tax other than texting. The proposed levy made news in our pages last week. And everywhere else. But popular outrage at the idea is not what convinced proponents they needed to find other ways to deprive people of their money. It was Trump’s FCC.
Taxing Texting..
To Democrats, everything should be subject to taxation including free speech. California has plans to tax text messaging according to the Bay Area’s Mercury News. The specifics of tax collection are unclear. The likelihood being the tax will be applied as a flat tax with regulators saying it “could be applied retroactively for five years.” This could also mean higher cellular service charges.
Democrat Mind: California Considers Texting Tax To Buy Mobile Phones for Illegals
California wants to give “poor people” mobile phones. Maybe so they can call the poop patrols? Hey. I just shat on Lombard street. Get someone over here to clear this up. It stinks.
This category of the underprivileged undoubtedly includes some untold number of sanctuary state harbored illegal aliens. They are after all “poor.”
If this is REALLY a “thing”, can we just send them back to Mommy & Daddy?
by Skip
This kind of stuff is really starting to creep me out: scared of ideas, scared of people with differing opinions, scared of history, scared of not having safe spaces supplied with pillows, crayons, and puppies?? And now the NEXT thing that these adults-who-won’t-admit-they-are-children (and very small children at that):
“Doorbells are just so sudden. It’s terrifying,” says Tiffany Zhong, 20, the founder of Zebra Intelligence, which helps companies conduct custom research and gather insights on people born in the past two decades. There’s no published research about doorbell phobia, but it’s a real thing. In a poll by a Twitter user earlier this month that got more than 11,000 votes, 54% of respondents said “doorbells are scary weird.”
That cell phone while driving post that Steve put up?
by Skip
Steve wrote about the NTSB busybodies now wishing to go all Nanny State on us about texting while driving; I thought this just fit ever so well. Dig the micro car with the electrical plug, too. It is never enough for the Govt to just carry out something that many of us think is a … Read more
Increased Cell Phone Use Coincides With Fewer Fatalities
The paper pushers at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), would like to ban all cell phone use in motor vehicles. That includes hands free, hand-held, all of it. But after looking at the collision and fatality statistics, and skimming through the NHTSA’s Dec 2011 report on distracted driving, the thing most likely to accomplish the stated goal of reducing distracted driving injuries and deaths would be to ban passengers altogether, prohibit talking, and then move the legal driving age up to 25.
From the NHTSA Dec 2011 Report exevutive summary key findings.
The most commonly performed potentially distracting behaviors while driving are talking to other passengers in the vehicle (80%) and adjusting the car radio (65%). Other common behaviors include eating/drinking (45%), making/accepting phone calls (40%), interacting with children in the back seat (27%), and using a portable music player (30%).
What is even more amusing is that if you look at the national data, deaths, accidents, and injuries have all declined as cell phone use has increased.