Renee Dauven wrote:

> Hobbs wrote:
>
>> This is one of the oldest hoaxes on the internet.
>
>
>        This time it is not a hoax...
>        At midnight tonight, the federal law which has prevented states,
> counties, cities, etc. from taxing internet activity will sunset unless
> Congress renews the law today.

The law expiring is true. The fact that it has any connection at all to
email is not.

The law expiring had nothing whatsoever to do with email.  The expiring
law was passed due to states and localities taxing the connection to
your ISP, just as they tax satelitte TV service and just as they and the
federal government tax telephone service. No state or locality has ever
taxed or attempted to tax emails.  To do so would be technologically
impossible.  Even if they did get the literally thousands of ISP's
nationwide to go along with it and count emails for taxing purposes they
would still have the problem that tens of thousands of us, and nearly
every company and organization of any size at all, have their own email
servers.  How could they count those emails?

Now, could everyone stop being so gullible and beleiving everything they
read which was taken out of context and get back to VA genealogy?

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