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>From RollCall
> Internet Tax is a Hoax
>
> By Roll Call internet staff
>
> An email hoax has been circulating recently declaring that Congress is
> about to pass legislation allowing the U.S. Postal Service to collect
> a 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered. It is completely false.
>
> First, the U.S. Postal Service is not authorized to collect taxes of
> any kind for the United States government. Second, there is no
> Representative in Congress named "Schnell." Finally, the name and
> number of the bill mentioned in the hoax email does not follow the
> naming convention for bills in the House and Senate.<<br> Following is
> the text of one of the circulating emails:
>
> 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 bureacratic 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.
>
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