When this first came out do you remember all the left wing morons claiming "this is bogus, there is no such thing as a oBumma phone"...... when it became widely known that they were indeed real they tried to say "this isn't paid for by tax money" and that some kind of fund paid it.... even they were embarrassed over this ludicrous entitlement.
Funding for these phones are obtained by a "Universal Service Fund" (or something like that) which liberals do not call a tax but if you are forced to pay a fee to the government it IS A TAX for all practical purposes.