E-mail to Congress:

A friend sent me this website address: https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx

It describes a free cell phone and airtime each month for income-eligible customers. I followed it to its source.

It is part of a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program, which is known as the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) and was set up under Congressional mandate. Therefore, I need not tell you about it, since you and your Congressional Associates started it. It is said to provide discounts on basic monthly service and initial installation or activation fees for telephone service at the primary residence to income-eligible consumers. There is a minor detail difference in that the advertisement mentions cell phones, while the FCC implies landline phones. However, we consider that a minor factor.

The main question is who pays for this CONVENIENCE to the "poor and underprivileged"? It could be government with the general taxpayers footing the bill. That would be bad enough, but the specific costs are all borne as a group by all telephone users, except the "poor and underprivileged", who pay taxes on their phone usage. The mandate is that all telecommunications service providers must contribute to the federal USF based on a percentage of their interstate and international end-user telecommunications revenues. Telecommunications service providers then pass the costs on to their customers.

I just checked my telephone bill. My telephone taxes exceed my cost of service by 134%. Rather high, don't you think?

Should I congratulate you personally or the Congress as a group for this major move in contributing to the establishment of a Marxist society?