[12681] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EFF and the big bad T (tax) word [same old stuff]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel J. Weitzner)
Thu May 26 04:39:34 1994
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 16:56:53 -0600
To: Bill Frezza (via RadioMail) <frezza@radiomail.net>, com-priv@psi.com,
alt-politics-datahighway@cs.utexas.edu
From: djw@eff.org (Daniel J. Weitzner)
Cc: mech@eff.org
At 1:04 PM 5/25/94 -0700, Bill Frezza (via RadioMail) wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Thank you for your posting.
Don't thank me. I was actually not for your benefit. It was for the rest
of the list.
>
>Thank you for admitting, in your own tortuous way, that the EFF supports
>an info-tax to fund direct subsidization of network access.
>I enjoy lively disagreements but I don't like being called a liar.
If you showed any capacity or interest in engaging in a serious discussion,
I would answer you questions in detail, but you haven't. This is the 3rd
or 4th exchange where you have persisted in misrepresenting EFF's position
so for the last time let me say: we have never called for a tax on
information services, nor have we supported any piece of legislation that
does this.
The problem is that you persist in confusing government support for net
access, which would come from the general tax base, with a tax on
information services, which might then be used to fund net access. We
support the former where it proves necessary.
You may, of course, continue to post your questions, but I have no
intention of answering them because you have shown no capacity to engage in
a rational discussion on this issue.
Yours in anti-objectivism,
Danny
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