[asterisk-biz] US Bill could affect telecom industry in the US

[Steve Totaro]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Steve Totaro
<stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel
> <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
>> Senator Dodd (D-CT) appears to have a rider attached to a bill that
>> forces reporting of all transactions to the government.  Ebay, google,
>> mastercard, visa, etc.  It can be quite scary the amounts of information
>> that the government would get.  Everything the poindexter system wanted.
>>
>> The telecom tie in is that your transactions may fall victim to this
>> law, and you would have to report all of them to the government, who
>> buys minutes etc, probably not who they called though, but you may have
>> to report the deduction of credits on a prepaid.  You may want to get
>> your legal people to look at this and see if it would affect you in any
>> way if it passes.
>>
>> I havent yet had time to read it to see if it would actually require
>> telecom reporting, but it appears to on its surface.  Some have claimed
>> that this this is the groundwork for a internet based tax, although I
>> see far worse things than a mere tax if it passes.
>>
>> relevant URLs
>>
>> http://dodd.senate.gov
>> http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/93xx/doc9366/Senate_Housing.pdf  CBO report
>> on its costs
>> http://banking.senate.gov/public/_files/GSEBill.pdf  committee report
>> http://rpc.senate.gov/public/_files/L62HR3221Houseamendments0618SN.pdf
>> and yet even more
>>
>> The article that I got the tip from which gives a summary is at
>> http://freedomworks.org/newsroom/press_template.php?press_id=2571
>> which gives their summary of what the changes would be and information
>> about where its hidden (its a rider not the main point of the bill).
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com     Bret McDanel
>> Belfast +44 28 9099 6461        US +1 516 687 5200
>> http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you!
>>
>
> Wow, just get rid of paper money and put RFIDs (with GPS) in us
> already, then they can charge us for speeding and deduct it from our
> account....
>
> So much less paperwork.
>
> It is getting very close to plan B.  Move to another country
>
> Thanks,
> Steve T
>

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Thanks,
Steve T