This is one of the oldest hoaxes on the internet.


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>Earlier in the week I sent out a warning to all the lists I am on to call
>your Congress people to extend and make permanent the Internet Tax Freedom Act
>which keeps US-you and I from being charged a fee for every email we send or
>receive. The article I sent was from the reliable and honest Wall Street Journal.
>People have said for some time that this was coming about but called a hoax
>by others. We had more or less scoffed at the idea. Read the below which came
>out this morn from a reliable group in DC and shows Congress is so busy
>fillibustering nominees of the President and fighting and behaving like children in
>our Congress they did not even get to this bill. So watch your bills go up
>soon.
>Frankly I do not think the lists provider or controller ever sent this out to
>all of you so you may not even be aware of what was going on. another example
>of liberal media to keep things hidden from the  public. I am sending this
>again to various lists in order to get attention but also picking folks I know
>at random on some lists in case the list owner does not forward to all of you.
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>In not-so-good news, Congress will not get a chance to extend the Internet
>Tax Freedom Act before it expires today(Oct 31), because Republicans Lamar
>Alexander and George Voinovich are holding the legislation in limbo -- fodder for
>some other legislative wink-and-nod shenanigans. The Act is a moratorium on
>Internet access taxation, and double taxation of Web purchases.
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