Time: Thu Feb 13 07:43:19 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA22781; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:02:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:37:38 -0800 To: Arthur Sobey <sobeyit@trip.net> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: taxing the Internet The Internet should be taxed in a voluntary fashion, with users assessing themselves at the rate of so many pennies per minute of local access time. This money would be split 50/50 between NASA-adminstered low-orbit transponder development, and the purchase of high-volume, low-cost Internet workstations for public grammar, high school, and community college workshops in Internet usage, programming, and new paradigms in distance learning technologies. Local carriers would be encouraged to enclose instructions for touch-tone dialing into menus which allow users to choose the voluntary tax they wish to pay, which would be activated automatically by the billing programs of the local carriers. The user would have the option to tax connect time, at a flat rate per minute, or to tax transmission volume, at a flat rate per kilobyte. The tax rate could also vary, depending on whether transmission volumes are inbound or outbound. This is just one idea. I have lots of other ideas. /s/ Paul Mitchell At 12:41 AM 2/13/97 +0000, you wrote: >Arthur Sobey wrote: >> >> Dear Sir, >> >> Any action aimed at limiting internet access for American citizens >> should be viewed as frivolous. If anything, phone companies should be >> directed to charge internet service providers the absolutely lowest >> possible fees in order to ensure the cheapest possible internet access >> for all Americans. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Arthur R Sobey >> Contact Info > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0 on 80586 CPU ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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