GOP to raise your taxes and give them directly to corporations.

Who says conservatives don't believe in the redistribution of wealth? Nah, they only believe it's wrong to redistribute money downward. It's perfectly good to redistribute it upward.

Case in point: the Universal Service Fund. The USF is a fee attached to your phone bill that is used to pay for making sure that phone service is available everywhere (hence "universal") in America. It helps pay for poor areas, rural areas, and places such as schools, libraries, etc. As far as I know, it just pays for infrastructure (wires, poles, etc).

Right now, the fee we all pay is based on our long distance phone calls. If you make only 1 minute of LD calls in a month, you pay "x amount" that month. If you make 100 minutes of LD calls in a month, you pay "100x amount."

Can you solve the mystery? Who is in power right now? Whom do they serve? And who pays the most in USF fees every month? Now, guess who's about to get screwed?

Yup, the GOP is considering a MAJOR cash gift to our corporations (those wonderful people who pay virtually no other federal taxes at all). And this money is to come out of YOUR pocket.

The math here is simple. Corporations make the vast majority of long distance calls every day. It's a part of their business. And the bigger the business, the more LD calls they make. So this can't even be spun as a boon to small businesses. It's a pure gift to mega-corporations, people like Microsoft who call all over the world every day.

The GOP plan is to make the fee a FLAT fee. So your 20 minutes of LD calls this month will cost you as much USF tax as a mega-corporation--with its huge offices and thousands of employees on the phone at the same time--who makes that much maybe every second. The loss of USF money will have to be made up somehow. Yours will have to come up.

This is a huge tax raise on the working poor and the elderly. Heck, even regular working people can't afford this. We could consider doing away with the USF altogether, but why should we take phones away from rural people just to give cash to the rich? What kind of society is the GOP trying to build here?

There's also a hidden threat in this. A flat fee will not only cost your more in taxes, but the phone companies will take a huge loss on LD profits. There's a chance that this bill will force phone companies to end their flat fee LD packages. That means we're going back to the days of counting our minutes when make LD calls. So we're getting punished two ways--just to give more money to the corporations.

Good God, when are people going to wake up and see the damn TRUTH?! The GOP is only about serving the rich. You'd think that would turn people's stomach. If you think the Dems are bad for taking your money and giving it to the poor, the GOP comes off infinitely worse. It's just despicable to take money from those who need it and giving it to those who DON'T need it.