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Obama Proposes New Wireless Spectrum Fee

Under President Obama's budget submitted to lawmakers, wireless carriers such as Verizon, AT&T and Sprint would be hit with huge fees for the right to hold a spectrum license. The fee per carrier would be $50 million this year and eventually rise to $500 million per carrier, per year within a decade. Users fear carriers will add the new fee to phone bills.

The Obama administration Feb. 26 proposed to tax wireless carriers as much as $550 million per year for the right to hold a spectrum license. The fee would be in addition to the billions carriers have already paid in spectrum auctions held by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission).

Under the budget outline provided by the Obama administration, the new fees would be used to help reduce the $1.7 trillion national deficit. The proposal before Congress would charge carriers like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint $50 million this year. The fee per carrier would jump to $200 million in 2010 and eventually rise to $550 million by 2019.

According to the OMB (Office of Management and Budget), the fees would generate $4.8 billion over the next 10 years.

Alright one more negative proposal like this coming from Obama and I will lose all support of Obama.

[emberfly]

Cigarettes are already taxed to death, aren't they? I think the government should get creative and tax other things... spread the taxation love around :P

BUT, cigarettes do hurt every single person that comes in contact with them.. directly and indirectly, so I'm definitely not against taxing them, but I just don't like that they keep taxing THEM when there are so many other things they could tax.

Those taxes are for the "bail outs".... the bail outs of companies that completely screwed up and now we have to pay up for their screw ups. Like it was our fault in the first place rolleyes.gif

Are you talking about the American car companies? I'm completely against helping them out. I think it's a completely corrupt business that doesn't deserve our help. When other companies burn out, we definitely don't help them. Why would we make these companies special by helping them? Honestly, I didn't know Obama was going to help those car companies....what companies are you talking about?