The short item in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today, bearing the innocuous-sounding title “Additional fee on phones starts Sunday“, but it tells a story of the creeping socialism of modern life:
Beginning Sunday, Missouri telephone customers will pay an additional universal service fee to help subsidize telephone service for the poor and disabled.
Not that I am entirely without heart, but when did schnucking telephone service become a right necessitating public subsidy?
Let’s take bets….what’s the next thing that the government will subsidize or force us to subsidize through service fees?
- Cable television?
- Cellular phone service?
- Cellular phone service for The Children?
- Internet connections in every home?
- Trips to the doctor and free prescriptions every time you get a sniffle?
- Professional landscaping services?
Yes, number 5 is very popular, but watch for the others to sneak in while we’re fighting against free health care.
