<story><title>I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message</title><url>https://twitter.com/dweekly/status/1552148207248896001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw8383833jj</author><text>I think a much easier way would be if we just taxed phone calls at 1 cent each.  I mean absolutely everything else is already taxed: you pay taxes just to stay alive.  the least that could be done is add a 1 cent tax to each phone call, just enough to stop the mass phone calling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>An online game, Eve Online, let&amp;#x27;s you set a fee for anyone not in your contacts to message you, with a default fee. You get some of it and &amp;quot;the government&amp;quot; (the game) gets the rest. The first time you message someone, you get prompted to pay the fee or discard your message.&lt;p&gt;I want this in real life. Set a default of a $1 or so. Your carrier gets $0.25, you get $0.75. You can adjust the fee to $0 or $1000. Carrier gets 25%.</text></comment>
<story><title>I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message</title><url>https://twitter.com/dweekly/status/1552148207248896001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw8383833jj</author><text>I think a much easier way would be if we just taxed phone calls at 1 cent each.  I mean absolutely everything else is already taxed: you pay taxes just to stay alive.  the least that could be done is add a 1 cent tax to each phone call, just enough to stop the mass phone calling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flerchin</author><text>Yep, and folks could even have a credit of 500 phone calls a month, or whatever a reasonable number would be, so no cost to consumers at all. Instead of a tax, it should be a minimum charge that goes to the carriers. So that they would be incentivized to collect it.</text></comment>