[12669] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EFF and federal taxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel J. Weitzner)
Wed May 25 22:54:13 1994
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 15:00:42 -0600
To: don.wills@swc.com (Don Wills)
From: djw@eff.org (Daniel J. Weitzner)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, mech@eff.org
At 1:50 PM 5/25/94 -0600, Don Wills wrote:
>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.
I really doubt that the State of Illinois has refused all federal funding
for schools and libraries, but if they have, they're a rare exception among
other states.
Last time I looked at the federal budget, there was hundreds of millions of
dollars for education and libraries, if not billions. You may not like the
fact that this happens, but please don't try to pretend that the US
Department of Education and the Federal Library Construction Fund are just
devious ideas in the collective head of EFF.
>EFF is advocating a brand new
>federal program for redistributing money taken in (via a net tax I assume)
I would as that before you make erroneous assumptions about our position,
at least have the decency to read my post on this subject.
>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.
If you think our view of the world is ludicrous, please describe for those
on this your view and your principles.
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