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From: 6089031@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Shantanu Saha)
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Subject: Re: ATTENTION ALL MICRO USERS!!! FCC INFORMATION TAX AHEAD!!
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Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 13:49:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 21 13:49:20 1987
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FLAME WARNING!!!
 
In article <2315@hoptoad.uucp>, sunny@hoptoad.uucp (Sunny David Kirsten) writes:
 
>ANY Taxation of ANY communications is a violation of your
>constitutional right to FREEdom of speech.  Refuse to have
>your constitutional rights violated.  We legally live in
>a constitutional republic, not a democracy.  Don't let those
>clones in Washington get away with their continued attempts
>to invalidate and obsolete the constitution.
 
Yo! People!  THE PROPOSED RULE CHANGE IS NOT A TAX!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anti-taxation garbage of this kind is bad enough when it refers to a
real, honest-to-God tax.  In reference to a proposal which allows a
provider of service to CHARGE A FEE for the SERVICE which THEY ARE
PROVIDING in order to make a PROFIT, it is more than I can take.
 
It takes a warped mind indeed to see in the first amendment a restriction
of the government's right to place reasonable excise taxes on the
provision of a service, just because the service happens to involve
the transfer of information.
 
It takes a fanatic to attempt to apply this kind of reasoning in the
instant case.
 
>                                              BTW... I've
>heard The Phone Company will honor your refusals to pay
>taxes on your phone bill.  Just send in the correct amount
>less any taxes they charged you with the statement that they
>are in violation of your right to free speech.
 
I doubt it.  Have you done it?  Has anyone on the net?  Or is this
another rumor like the one about the case which is supposed to prove
the Income Tax unconstitutional, but which in reality either does not
exist, or turns out to be a rehash of arguments so long discredited
that they are considered frivolous?
 
Robert A. West     (Q4071@PUCC)
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