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> From: Brenda Perrin <bperrin@ncn.net>
> To: PATTY MILLER <henna74@hotmail.com>; MICHELLE  & ERIC DANIELSON
<michelle-danielson@uiowa.edu>; LYNDSAY PERRIN <lucylou5@hotmail.com>; LUKE
& CHRISTY PERRIN <Perrin@megatropic.com>; Kim Olsen
<olsenk@witcc.cc.ia.us>; KEVIN NASLUND <knaslund@ncn.net>; KATHY THEEDE
<kmt77@ncn.net>; John Perrin <jperrin@seattlefur.com>; JENNIFER KINSEY
<kinseyj@yahoo.com>; Donese Perrin <nammad@aol.com>; Dan Tindall
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<cin-gair-gabe@mindspring.com>; Cam & Sue Hatch <hatch@ncn.net>; 1st Lt.
Shannon Perrin <sperrin@juno.com>; Angela Lawson <lawsona@witcc.cc.ia.us>
> Subject: FW: TAXES AND YOU
> Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 12:34 PM
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Dunlaps [mailto:brewmasterd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 9:01 PM
> To: Chris  Beggio; Lance Dunlap; Debi  Durke; Carmen Hagan; Andy Hall;
> Elise Hoffman; jim kathyhy; Sherree Lewis; Wendell Neeley; Vicki
> Runcorn; Floyd Salas; John Schmidt; carlos villanueva; curt + Kim
> whitlesey; Greg Young
> Subject: TAXES AND YOU
> 
> 
> >Another "Tax" in the works?
> >Read the following and pass it on to everyone you
> know:
> >
> >Dear Internet Subscriber:
> >
> >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 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 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 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.
> >
> >
> 
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