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That is one of the better known hoaxes out there:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blemtax2.htm
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Steven W. Poser, President
Poser Global Market Strategies Inc.
http://www.poserglobal.com
> Animal wrote:
>
> Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay on-line 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 efficiency. 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, V
>
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