<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But isn't just another sneaky indirect tax on us?<br>When the gov't auctions off the spectrum the purchasers will then have to
<br>recover that expenditure by charging more for whatever service will be<br>running there.<br></blockquote></div><br>I wouldn't call it a tax. The only people who end up paying more are the people actually using the service. If you never own a cellphone, you don't help pay the phone company's fee to the FCC for that spectrum, etc. Unless you want to look at it like the "sin taxes", then I suppose only the people using the service are being taxed.
<br><br>Cole Brodine<br>