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

[Steve Totaro]

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
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> 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