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RE: URGENT SqFt - INTERNET TAX Vote Now

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

Bill,

Check out www.snopes.com <http://www.snopes.com>  a quick search of this
site and you will find your email hoax.

Rich

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Bill [O*@netscape.net]
		Sent:	Tuesday, February 01, 2000 2:13 PM
		To:	Square Foot Gardening List
		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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