Congress should repeal access charge

Congress can help the poor by repealing the federal/interstate access charge on land line phone bills.

Before divestiture there were two main land line phone companies (ATT and GTE) with no access charges. Today, we are back to two main land line phone companies (ATT and Verizon), yet we now have high access fees. What started as a dollar now is 40 to 50 percent of the line charge.

In 2007 the top two at ATT were compensated $105,437,054, while in 2006 Verizon's top was gifted $21,206,700.

Companies merged. When will Congress wake up? Let's help the poor on Social Security, the rural poor, and the city poor.

What happened to "For the People"?

Jim Myers

North Aurora