So the New York Post wants to stir populist outrage against mobile phone carriers with this bit of "investigative journalism". From PHONE TAXES ARE CELL HELL:

Eleven federal, state and city levies add as much as 33 percent to the cost of New Yorkers' cellphones, a Post analysis found.

A typical cell plan costing $49.99 a month comes with a total tax bill of $10.59 -- a 21.18 percent tax rate that helps give New York the fourth-highest cellphone taxes of any state.

And cheaper plans favored by the frugal and poor are taxed at higher rates.

In GOP-bootlicking fashion, they only are saying a half truth. Why? Because they won't say that mobile phone carriers are passing on their tax responsibilities onto us. From CNet| Supreme Court rejects cell-phone tax case:  read more »