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- Conference: 98,Rush Limbaugh
- Number: 129
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- Date: 1993-06-27,07:37
- From: RICK WELSHANS
- To: ALL
- Subject: USE A MODEM? READ THIS!!!
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- This should get everyone's attention. We need to warm up those faxes,
- ladies and gentlemen, and stop this measure. The Compromise committee
- needs to SQUASH this item as soon as we can get them to do so....
-
- Looks like Clinton is at it AGAIN. (or is that STILL??)
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- * Forwarded from the U-Alt.p.Clin conference.
- * Original from RPWHITE to ALL on 06-25-93.
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- From: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 18:40:34 GMT
- Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA
- Message-ID: <C96x7M.G6p@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
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- [Excerpted without permission from The San Jose Herald.]
- BY ROBERT DOBSON
- Herald Washington Bureau
-
- WASHINGTON - The Senate moved toward approving its version of
- President's Clinton's budget package early this morning, a move
- that is expected to set the stage for a showdown over "hidden
- taxes" and spending in a House-Senate conference committee. At
- which time, conservatives in the senate say they will fight efforts
- to increase taxes and spending which they say is hidden in the
- legislation. Singled out was $60 million to be used to finance the
- National Data Network that Vice-President Gore is a supporter of.
- The $60 million is to be raised by the imposition of a tax on
- the manufacturers of telecommunications hardware and by fees on the
- users of such equipment, known as modems. "We used the Pittman-
- Robertson act, which finances conservation efforts through a tax on
- firearms and ammunition, as a model," said Congressional
- spokesperson Bonnie Houck. "The people purchasing and using this type
- of equipment are affluent and well off. It's fair, it's not taxation,
- this is a progressive measure that asks the users of a resource to
- pay for the costs of that resource."
-
- [deleted]
-
- Clinton Administration spokesperson J. R. Dobbs cautioned
- against calling the fees a tax; "Inaccurate buzz words like `modem
- fees' and allusions to `modem taxes' produce knee-jerk reactions
- that short-circuit constructive inquiry into a vital public issue.
- Telecommunications users from all sectors - educators, small
- business, local governments, public service entities. liraries and
- recreational users - should take strong interest in how the next
- generation of telecommunications networks will be developed and
- financed.
- The newly authorized user fees are concealed in an obscure
- line item (Docket 37-42 of the Data Communications Network
- Architecture, or DCNA proposal), "the implications of which NO ONE
- at this time fully understands," according to noted MIT
- communications policy expert James Parry. These changes would
- require telecommunications users to pay "usage sensitive" carrier
- charges.
-
- [deleted]
-
- Roger Carasso is a special assistant to the chief of the
- Common Carrier Bureau at the FCC. He said it made sense that
- someone using a 14,400 bps modem pay more than someone using a 2400
- bps modem. He also commented that it was good policy to have the
- fees collected by modem manufacturers and the regional Bell
- operating companies (RBOC's). "That way the users don't see the
- government involved in the same old `tax and spend'. In this case
- the users can take pride in the fact that they are, in fact,
- directly financing the new `data superhighway' while, at the same
- time, freeing up scarce government resources for truly necessary
- social programs such as Medicare, food stamps and education."
-
- [rest of article deleted]
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