[12665] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
EFF and federal taxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Wills)
Wed May 25 22:18:07 1994
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 13:50:19 -0600
To: djw@eff.org
From: don.wills@swc.com (Don Wills)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, mech@eff.org
In Daniel Weitzner's following post, he makes perfectly clear what EFF's
agenda is:
> Yes, we believe that federal funding for schools and libraries is important
> and it seems perfectly appropriate for some of that funding to go to net
> access.
In my state (Illinois), all (or almost all) funding for primary and
secondary schools comes from state and local government. All funding for
libraries comes from local government. EFF is advocating a brand new
federal program for redistributing money taken in (via a net tax I assume)
by the Feds to give it back to local schools and libraries. Unbelievable.
I stand by using my word "ludicrous" to describe how far astray EFF has
gone from its original objectives.
Don Wills
