News to Know: Obama wants to tax your cell phone

"We can do this without Congress": Obama working to unilaterally impose tax on cell phones.
A tax without the approval of Congress––without the approval of our elected representatives? Sounds like taxation without representation to me.

Wait, didn't we once fight a war over that? (To be fair, the American War of Independence was fought over a longer list of injustices, which can be read here.)