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The White House - only lies comes out of there
----- Original Message -----
From: Dtrader <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 13:01
Subject: Re: Is this for real?
> can you tell us the source of this story or where and when
it appeared ?
>
> links ?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Antonik <mbcsne@xxxxxxx>
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 12:57 PM
> Subject: Is this for real?
>
>
> :> Government is trying to tax e-mail!
> :>
> :> ==========================
> :>
> :> If your local post office has a bulletin board you
might want to
> :copy and
> :> post this to alert others. Please remove headers, etc.
before posting
> :at
> :> your local post office.
> :>
> :> Please read the following carefully if you intend to
stay online and
> :> continue using email: 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 their 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.
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
> :(r) 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 6th 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.
> :>
> :> Kate Turner
> :> Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
> :> Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, VA
> :
> :
>
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