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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (5981)	8/16/2001 3:20:08 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 93284

Hemp would be good. It's not conservatives that thwart it but government in general. The laws against it were instituted years ago but it's against the nature of government (and it's blood-sucking bureaucracy) to divest itself of laws or power. Hell it took a whole century to get rid of a telephone tax that had something to do with the Spanish American War. OPENINGS TO ALTERNATE: · In too many families, one parent works to put food on the table, while the other works all day to serve the Washington bureaucracy. We must turn those tables by repealing the outdated Spanish-American War Telephone Tax. · Most people spend more money on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, shelter and transportation combined. This has to stop, and it will begin to when we eliminate the outdated Spanish-American War Telephone Tax. MIDDLES TO CONSIDER: · The Spanish-American War Telephone Tax is a relic of the 19th Century – back in the days of Teddy Roosevelt and the Roughriders. · This is one of the most onerous taxes out there. Everyone who makes a call pays this outdated Spanish-American War Phone Tax. Worse yet, the higher your phone bill, the more you’re taxed, and this hits the poor the hardest. · The outdated Spanish-American War Telephone Tax not only punishes those trying to stay in touch over the phone, but also those trying to access the Internet. That’s because 95% of American men, women, and children going on-line at home use their telephone lines. We should foster the new economy, not cut it off. · The only risky scheme is Washington’s insatiable lust for more and more of your hard-earned money. That’s pretty apparent since the Spanish-American War started and ended in 1898. · The Spanish-American War started in April 1898 and ended in December 1898 – that’s EIGHT MONTHS. However, as if this makes any sense, we’ve been funding the conflict off and on for the last 102 YEARS. I thought of you when I read this (the passionate part) but then quickly realized it had facts, hey nobody's perfect.