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What the New York Post doesn't say is that we're paying the cellphone companies' taxes

So the New York Post wants to stir populist outrage against mobile phone carriers with this bit of "investigative journalism". From PHONE TAXES ARE CELL HELL:

Eleven federal, state and city levies add as much as 33 percent to the cost of New Yorkers' cellphones, a Post analysis found.

A typical cell plan costing $49.99 a month comes with a total tax bill of $10.59 -- a 21.18 percent tax rate that helps give New York the fourth-highest cellphone taxes of any state.

And cheaper plans favored by the frugal and poor are taxed at higher rates.

In GOP-bootlicking fashion, they only are saying a half truth. Why? Because they won't say that mobile phone carriers are passing on their tax responsibilities onto us. From CNet| Supreme Court rejects cell-phone tax case:

The wireless companies, naturally, maintain they should be able to establish a visible separation between the base prices of their services and the fees required by various regulators. States and localities have increasingly been passing laws prohibiting those line items expressly in order to "hide" arguably unpopular taxes and fees from consumers, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile said in their brief to the high court.

And because taxes and fees vary by locale, building them into the base price would make it impossible to advertise one price to all customers nationwide, they contended--and therefore make it harder for consumers to compare prices among wireless carriers.

But state utility regulators have countered that the wireless companies are missing the point: The fees and taxes they impose are generally meant to fall on the wireless carriers themselves, not on consumers. Wireless companies should simply raise their rates to reflect that distinction, they argue.

In other news: Two European companies — a major contractor to the U.S. government and a top cell-phone equipment maker — last year installed an electronic surveillance system for Iran that human rights advocates and intelligence experts say can help Iran target dissidents.

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