At 08:15 PM 5/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bill Lovell wrote:
>
>> The US District Court for the District of Columbia agreed that it
>> was a tax but said that Congress could retroactively authorize it,
>> which lawmakers did later that month.
>
>This most of all, is particularly appalling....
Some relevant questions arise, however, and without taking
any positions on them, I'll ask, anyway:
1) One complaint is that NSI has been getting beaucoup bucks
on its contract, but the USG (i.e., us taxpayers) got nuthin. So
isn't $62 mill in university research into improving the internet
something?
2) What else you gonna do with that $62 mill? Pay it back?
Give it to ICANN? (Ooo -- I'm getting ill.) Give it to all the ISP
and other varieties of entrepreneur that populate these pages?
Well, of course. (heh.)
Bill Lovell
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