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James DeMeo wrote:
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> Subject:- Big Government Plans to Tax E-Mail: SB 602P
>
> Orgone Biophysical Research Lab <demeo@xxxxxxxx>
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> Big Government Plans to Tax E-Mail: SB 602P
>
> >
> >
> >Senate Bill 602p is in congress now to start
> >charging up to 5 cents per e-mail
> >
> >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 US attempting to quietly
> >push through legislation that will affect your use of
> >the Internet. Under proposed legislation the US
> >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 US 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 US 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 bureacratic
> >efficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a
> >letter to be delivered from New York to Buffalo. If the US Postal
> >Service is allowed to tinker with email, it will mark
> >the end of the "free" Internet in the US.
> >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 email to all Americans on your list and tell
> >your friends and relatives to write to their
> >congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P. Kate Turner
> >Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
> >Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, Va.
> >
> >It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's
> >important. You have to do the right thing...You may
> >never know what results come from your action. But if
> >you do nothing, there will be no result. (Gandhi)
>
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