Looking at Wireless Home Phone? Is it really portable???

To add to this subject, does the Verizon Home Phone Connect also hit you with the taxes and surcharges that Verizon charges with a "landline" phone?

My basic home phone is almost as inexpensive as the Verizon Home Phone Connect BUT then I pay for caller ID, I pay $6/mo for the "priviledge" of having Verizon as my long distance carrier, I pay a tax on THEIR gross earnings, I pay $1/mo to fund 911 serice in my state, .... and the list goes on .... to over $55/mo.