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<p class="MsoNormal">I tell my customers to complain to their congress critter if they don’t like the 33% tax on the services.
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">VoiceOps <voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org> on behalf of Paul Timmins <paul@timmins.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 12:38 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>voiceops@voiceops.org <voiceops@voiceops.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] USF is 33.4% for 2Q2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On 6/10/21 6:23 AM, Alex Balashov wrote:<br>
><br>
> Yeah, observing it as an outsider who is not a service provider, I'm a<br>
> little shocked to say the least. It's hard to understand where that<br>
> kind of money is supposed to come from with the margins in this business.<br>
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> -- Alex<br>
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Passthru fees to the end user, duh. There's nothing us telcos can't cram<br>
on the bottom of the bill.<br>
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Customers are gonna be ticked, but what ya gonna do. It's a line item<br>
now, and a line item later.<br>
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