That's only because both parties are corrupt and are no longer working for the American people.
Exactly. Hence my point about checking out the donor list for these two. Prepaid cell service is a billion dollar plus business, and using this kind of smokescreen to burden prepaid providers with new costs and red tape seems to create a competitive advantage for the giants like Verizon, etc. Food for thought.
I don't really buy that the added cost would be so burdensome to cell phone companies having to add one more bit of info to their already existing data bases.
It does to me when you consider the data collection and (hopefully) secure transmission services that would have to be implemented at the point of sale plus the (hopefully) secure systems and personnel needed to enter the data and maintain it at the corporate level. Remember most of the prepaid services aren't already set up to collect, maintain and store this data.
Then there will be a cost per transaction apart from the initial complaince costs. It won't be cheap. How much? I couldn't say, but multiply the cost per transaction even in pennies by the number of transactions in the millions, add in initial and compliance costs and it adds up.
It seems like an unnecessary burden for an unnecessary policy - and one that has so many other concerns, such as 4th Amendment questions and issues centered on security and privacy of the data.