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The Federal Communications Commission has authorized a fee of $1 per month to home phone subscribers for long-distance service. The FCC calls it an ”access charge.”
The FCC maintains that the tax is necessary to lower long-distance charges for big business, the prime user of long-distance calls, who might otherwise switch to aother system.
If the Reagan adminstration wishes to subsidize the phone companies, let it do so from the government`s general funds. Many phone subscribers do not make long-distance calls. Why should they be charged for a service they do not use?
