US EditionThis tax was imposed to pay for war without charging ally nations * WorldNetDaily * by Jeremy Portnoy, Real Clear Wire
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This tax was imposed to pay for war without charging ally nations * WorldNetDaily * by Jeremy Portnoy, Real Clear Wire
Topline: The Spanish-American War ended in 1898, but it took over a century for Congress to completely stop charging a telephone tax created to fund it. The tax was finally eliminated in 2006, once the war was a distant memory. Americans spent $128.6 billion in total paying the tax, according to the IRS and Congressional Research Service. It generated $5.9 billion in taxes in 2005, the most of any year. That’s one large phone bill: $9.8 billion …
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