NY State pretending to collect cellphone tax for 911

Those "fees" that cellphone companies have been collecting for years to provide E-911 emergency response services to calls from cellphones? Um, they're not really going towards giving you better 911 service, at least not in New York State (we're not sure how bad it is in other states), where less than ten percent of the money is being used for its intended purpose. Instead the state is putting 50 cents of each $1.20 collected each month into its general fund, 24 cents goes to the state police, 34 cents goes to "homeland security", with the remaining 12 cents going to a cellular 911 system which to this day remains incomplete (and underfunded). So basically the state of New York is collecting a tax and pretending that it's for 911.