Donald Luskin analyzes the apparently illegal long distance excise tax under Section 4251 of the Internal Revenue Code:

Today, especially with cellphones, customers pay by the minute for phone calls, without regard to whether the call is across the street or across the country. But the way the 1965 law that enables the current version of the tax is written, the government can impose it only on calls charged on the basis of both time and distance.

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