"The FCC took a big step forward to save taxpayers their hard-earned dollars with the 'interim' cap on companies subsidized by the High-Cost Fund. That portion of the USF was intended to provide phone service to people in remote rural areas, but has turned into a slush fund of subsidies for too many telephone companies all serving the same areas. However, there is much more work the FCC needs to do to protect American taxpayers now shelling out $7 billion annually for the USF. The FCC-imposed cap on USF waste is only interim in nature; it should be made permanent ..."

Are you fed up with the way the federal government is frittering away billions of dollars in federal Universal Service Fund phone tax dollars? Then send a message to the Federal Communications to PERMANENTLY CAP the out-of-control "high cost" portion of the USF. Click this link or the bottle cap and we will send a bottle cap in your name to the FCC. The message: PERMANENTLY CAP THE HIGH-COST PORTION OF THE USF. Stop the waste of our phone bill tax dollars!