From San Jose, California's The Mercury News:
OMG! Now California wants to tax text-messaging?
Texting your sweetheart that you’re on your way home? California may soon charge you for that.
This is no LOL matter, critics say.
State regulators have been ginning up a scheme to charge a fee for text messaging on mobile phones to help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor. The wireless industry and business groups have been working to defeat the proposal, now scheduled for a vote next month by the California Public Utilities Commission.
“It’s a dumb idea,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council business-sponsored advocacy group. “This is how conversations take place in this day and age, and it’s almost like saying there should be a tax on the conversations we have.”
No wonder people are leaving in droves. Let's check the U Haul index:
So many people are leaving San Francisco that there is a shortage of U Haul trucks. U Haul offers a cash incentive for driving from Dallas to San Francisco and they gouge on the price of SF to Dallas because they can. People are willing to pay the money.
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