[twobjshelbys]

They mention a tax that I think already covers this. Since the text is associated with a voice line (ie, there are no text-only devices that I know of, except perhaps for one-way pagers), the "surcharge" as it appears on my Verizon bill should already be covering this. Maybe not in CA but in CO. It'd be easy to beat though, since they would probably attach the tax to in-state area codes. Just get a phone from somewhere else. We kept our CO phones when we moved and almost everyone I know has kept their old numbers.

One comment I saw on this on one of the news sites was "Yet another California tax. They would tax your toilet if they could figure out how to do it." I can just see it now, a web connected toilet that reports to the sewer plant when you flush. I ought to apply for the patent.