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Re: URGENT SqFt - INTERNET TAX Vote Now

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

I have seen this before and each time it has turned out to be a
hoax.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill" <OOWON@netscape.net>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:12 PM
Subject: URGENT SqFt - INTERNET TAX Vote Now


> Square Foot Gardening List -
http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> INTERNET "TAX"
>
> PLEASE NOTE:
> Verbages says, "within two weeks, Congress will..." so
> There is a time element involved,
> but I still believe a response is in order.
> (I see "Grange" and "future Farmers'/
> Poor Richard's Almanac" written all over this.)
> Bill
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:38:26 -0800
> Subject:  Very Important, please read & respond ASAP
> Date:  Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:39:32 -0800
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> ........INTERNETET USE TO BE TAXED............
> ..............by FED GOV'T ...................
> .........and "U.S." Postal 'Service"..........
>
>    Please note that there are two issues here!!!!
>
>        Fw: Congress to Allow E-mail Charges
>
> Please pass this on to all you know
> Since many of us use e-mail for business and
> to keep up with friends and family,
> I thought you'd like to know the following.
> Please jump on it right away and forward
> this to others.
>
> CNN has reported that within the next two weeks
> Congress  is going to vote on allowing telephone
> companies to CHARGE A TOLL FEE for internet access.
>
> Translation:
> Every time we send long distance e-mail we will receive
> a long distance charge. This will get costly.
>
> Please visit the following web site and file
> a complaint.
>
> Complain to your Congressperson.
> We can't allow this to pass.
>
> The following address will allow you to send
> an e-mail on this subject DIRECTLY to your
> Congressperson.
>
> http://www.house.gov/writerep
>
> We should ALL have an interest in this one.
>
> WAIT, THERE'S MORE. IN ADDITION,
>
> The last few months have revealed an
> alarming trend in the
>
> Government of the United States
>
> attempting to quietly push  through legislation
> that will affect your use of the Internet.
>
> Under proposed legislation the U.S. Postal
> Service will be attempting to bilk email users out
> of  "alternate postage fees".
>
> Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. to charge a
>
> 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered, by billing
> Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer
> would then be billed in turn by the ISP.
>
> Washington D.C. lawyer Richard Stepp is
> working without pay  to prevent this legislation from
> becoming law.
>
> The U.S. Postal Service is claiming that
> lost revenue due  to the proliferation of email is
> costing nearly  $230,000,000 in revenue per year.
>
> You may have noticed their recent ad campaign
> "There is nothing like a letter".
>
> Since the average citizen received
> about 10 pieces of email  per day in 1998,
> the cost to the typical individual would be an additional
> 50 cents per day,  or over
> $180 dollars Per year,
> above and beyond there regular Internet  costs.
>
> Note that this would be money paid directly
> to the  U.S. Postal Service for a service they do
> not even provide.
>
> <Jon, 14, caught this instantly.>
>
> The whole point of the Internet is democracy and
non-interference.
> If the federal government is permitted to
> tamper with  our liberties by adding a surcharge to  email,
> who Knows Where it will end.
>
> You are already paying an exorbitant price
> for snail mail  because of bureaucratic inefficiency.
> It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter
> to be delivered from New York to Buffalo.
> If The U.S. Postal Service is allowed to tinker with email;
> it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United
States.
>
> One congressman, Tony Schnell, has even suggested a
> "twenty to forty dollar per month surcharge
> on all internet service"  above and beyond the
> government's proposed email Charges.
>
> Note that most of the major newspapers have ignored the story,
> the only exception being the Washingtonian
> which called the  idea of email surcharge
> "a useful concept who's time has come"  (March 6, 1999)
Editorial.
>
> Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode away!
> Send this e-mail to EVERYONE on your list,
> and tell all your friends and relatives to
> write to their congressman and
>
> say "No!" to Bill 602P."
>
> It will only take a few moments of your time, and
> could very well be instrumental in
> killing a bill we don't want.
>
> PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO USES EMAIL
> REMEMBER THESE ARE TWO SEPARATE ISSUES THAT
> EFFECT ALL OF US ONLINE LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD
> NOW,  NOT AFTER
>
>
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