Comments on: Barack Obama Wants to Increase Your Taxable Income By Taxing Your Phone Usage

By: fidsyd

fidsyd — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:31:52 +0000

I guess Obama thinks he has a reason because apparently we have a very large debt we need to pay off in this country. Probably because of all of that spending Obama did when he entered office in January 2001.

By: ddstrain

ddstrain — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:41:00 +0000

be an unreimbursed employee business expense, and thus deductible. Not a tax lawyer, so I’m not 100% sure.

But their next step would be to do the same thing to Blackberry’s and other data-centric devices. That will be a direct, negative impact of productivity,

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:05:40 +0000

By: cannedjam

cannedjam — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:28:32 +0000

although i’m not sure if the almost 20% in taxes here in NYC that I pay on my personal cell phone is much worse

By: molybdanthan

molybdanthan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:13:38 +0000

Might as well expect this within the next 2 years. As well as new taxes on mileage, food production/distribution, bullets, reproduction, breathing, and anything else that we’d need to mount an adequate defense.

By: louisiana

louisiana — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:05:09 +0000

In Louisiana, REPULICAN rep. White introduced a bill for a 15cent surcharge
on internet access. It gets better…the most outspoken critics of the bill
are 2 democrats! Jindal has been a subject of some interest here. Seems
LA Sen. Landrieu gave him a tongue lashing yesterday on C-span, more
or less saying ,stay in LA , forget about national politics.

By: ss396

ss396 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:53:47 +0000

During the primaries, Obama and his minions went over the laws and rules surrounding the conduct of the various primaries. They did this in great detail, with an eye on how to work them to his best advantage. Everyone can do this, of course, but the rest of us respect the spirit, the purpose, and the intent of these laws and rules. Obama et al went solely after their strict wording. That is largely how he gamed the primaries to an advantage that no one else had really done before. Where most folks have a fairly good general knowledge of the rules, his people had exact detailed knowledge of what and how they could be exploited. They were overwhelming, even to the primaries’ captains.

Now he is doing the same thing at the national level.

By: molybdanthan

molybdanthan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:32:36 +0000

In case you didn’t know, Stevie Ray Vaughan covered it, as well a band called Nickel Creek (vastly superior to Nickelback).

And my advice to
Those who die.
Declare the pennies
On your eyes.

‘Cause I’m the taxman.
Yeah, I’m the taxman,
And you’re working for no one but me.

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:16:11 +0000

about not raising taxes. Of course he’ll tell us its one crisis after another that he inherited from Bush that will force us to raise taxes. Just like not “wanting to run the banks, mortgage, auto companies” but he was ‘forced’ to do so.

BTW, I posted this same cell phone thread earlier today about 10am here:

http://www.redstate.com/common_cents/2009/06/12/new-meaning-of-taxation-without-representation/

By: red4ever

red4ever — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:14:58 +0000

If I use my personal phone for business, I get a tax credit for that. Trust me, it will more than offset.

By: George Neitz

George Neitz — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:53:29 +0000

When the law went into effect the employees of all the bell sytem companies got a little present in the next years w2 showing an imputed income for our home phones which were subsidized by the corporation.
For some it was an awakening to the insidiousness of the democrat tax code, for the conservatives it was just another told you so.
And even now on retirement I still pay this tax on my phone bill not really a big deal cause they pay for the phone.

By: Ron Robinson

Ron Robinson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:36:14 +0000

Getting a cell phone SIM with unlimited international roaming: $ 200

Moving my web site to a Bahamian server offshore: $ 75

Setting up my Belize corporation owned by a Bahamian Trust: $ 1500

Setting up offshore credit card processing and bank account: $ 650

Slipping a credit/debit/ATM card drawing from offshore account into my pocket: $ 0

Sending an email to president@whitehouse.gov sneering at Obama for trying to tax my brain: priceless

Yes, in my world, this is genuine fun!

Obama is simply helping every global business segment except US business when he tried this stuff.

By: DerKrieger

DerKrieger — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:06:35 +0000

…and refuse to take work calls on my personal cell phone. The big cell phone companies will be hurt most by this as tens of thousands of work lines are dropped.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:02:12 +0000