I am shocked the vice president doesn’t already know about the BILLIONS collected for broadband as charged as a FEE on our telephone bills.

I have been complaining about this fee/tax charged monthly as the USF (Universal Service Fund) as put in place under President Bush for us and businesses to pay in 1992 to make sure schools and libraries got internet service. There was $3 billion dollars in the account when I introduced a bill in 2003-4 to end it for the goal had been accomplished. But the USF commission then added free cell phones as paid for by our phone bills under President Obama and our phone lobbyists for the phone companies didn’t want it ended as the phone companies were paid 10% of whatever they collected.

The problem in my opinion is the citizen pays all the USF as we also must pay through the buying of products for any businesses cost as who pays the products they sell such as cars, groceries, hardware, ,etc. of course we the buyers (citizens.)

But that’s not the end of the hidden TAX (fee) now the Congress has added a Federal USF Surcharge Fee to our telephone bill ( It amounts to USF $2.78 and Federal USF $1.21 on my $70.26 phone bill but actually a total of $17.27 in taxes and fees on the total phone bill of $70.26. But remember that isn’t all because we actually pay for every phone bill additional taxes and fees when I pay for my subscription to the daily newspaper or the cost of groceries.

So, VP Kamela Harris, your governmental Congress will add to my costs, not the rich or rich businesses, right? So, we will get broadband in another hidden tax most citizens don’t even realize they pay in every product we buy?