Researches Demand Cell Phone Cancer Tax

"A US senate subcommittee was told this week by cellphone safety researchers that more money is needed to research cellphone safety, ideally through a $1 tax on every mobile-phone bill.

The usual suspects turned up to present evidence to the Subcommittee on Labour, Health, and Human Services, which was sitting to consider the issue. It heard evidence from researchers on both sides of the debate, some of whom were attending a conference on the subject nearby.

The call for a levy on every mobile phone bill was proposed to the subcommittee by Devra Davis, of the University of Pittsburgh. She thinks the industry has a responsibility to fund the kind of research she happens to be doing."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/16/cellphone_safety/

That's all we need, another cell phone tax. There's already a 911 tax, a federal tax, and a state tax on cell phone bills. I doubt that this is going to even go through the Senate, considering that only 2 of the 12 members of that subcommittee showed up.