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Furious at FCC, Arkansas jail cancels inmate phone calls rather than lower rates

12 点作者 voxadam大约 2 个月前

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sejje大约 2 个月前
&gt; Baxter County claims that the FCC decision means that phone services are no longer &quot;feasible.&quot; In 2018, however, when Baxter County wanted to expand its jail and didn&#x27;t have the cash, officials found a way to make it feasible by asking voters to approve a 1-cent sales tax collected between April and September of that year. (You can even watch a time-lapse video of the jail expansion being built.) Feasibility, it turns out, is often in the eye of the beholder.<p>What&#x27;s the implication here? That they could tax residents and subsidize the calls at the previous rate?<p>Also, a 1-cent tax is a 1% tax. That particular political slang always bothers me. 1% is a lot on what you spend all year.