This is one of the oldest hoaxes on the internet. [log in to unmask] wrote: >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. > > ********************************** >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. > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at >http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html > > > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html