{"id":2206,"date":"2005-05-02T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2018-06-29T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:44:20","slug":"2206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/02\/2206\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Balance Checkbook on Backs of Missouri Phone Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The short item in the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> today, bearing the innocuous-sounding title &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/B43517084821B6F786256FF40048E350?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Additional fee on phones starts Sunday<\/a>&#8220;, but it tells a story of the creeping socialism of modern life:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beginning Sunday, Missouri telephone customers will pay an additional universal service fee to help subsidize telephone service for the poor and disabled.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that I am entirely without heart, but when did schnucking telephone service become a right necessitating public subsidy?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take bets&#8230;.what&#8217;s the next thing that the government will subsidize or force us to subsidize through service fees?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cable television?\n<li>Cellular phone service?\n<li>Cellular phone service <i>for The Children<\/i>?\n<li>Internet connections in every home?\n<li>Trips to the doctor and free prescriptions every time you get a sniffle?\n<li>Professional landscaping services?<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, number 5 is very popular, but watch for the others to sneak in while we&#8217;re fighting against free health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short item in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today, bearing the innocuous-sounding title &#8220;Additional fee on phones starts Sunday&#8220;, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20248,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/20248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}