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Re: URGENT SqFt - INTERNET TAX Vote Now

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This is baloney. It's under the hoaxes or urban legends website. Margaret L





At 11:12 AM 2/1/2000 PST, you wrote:
>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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