This is a Shocker!!
This is starting my New Year out with a shocker. I had no idea about this, did you?The following is quoted from a Fox News article.
"If you own a phone, you're paying for the fastest growing welfare program in the U.S.: free cell phones for low-income Americans.
The program, which is paid for through a tax on all home phones and cell phones known as the Universal Service Charge, is expected to exceed $1 billion this year, according to Erik Iversen, spokesman for the Universal Service Fund, the quasi-governmental agency set up to administer the program.
"The reality is this is just frosting on an enormous cake," says Robert Rector, an analyst with the Heritage Foundation. "We spend over $800 billion a year providing various types of assistance to the poor. That's one dollar in every 20 in this economy. It's huge and we really can't afford it."
Qualification for the subsidy is dependent on income. However, if a person is already enrolled in any of the popular federal welfare programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, low income housing, or the free school lunch, they are automatically eligible for a free cell phone.
So if an individual signs up for the program while on food stamps, then gets a job, no regulatory process exists to assure the subsidy ends."
Well guess that makes my day!!!
posted by Ann at
1:12 PM
1 Comments:
So many of these bring back memories to me. I can just hear my mother's voice saying so many of them. We would probably be better off if we were still hearing some of them. Thanks for the memories.
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