Speak Out
Here's a cause to get behind
Do you regard your telephone as a luxury and, therefore, should it be taxed as one? I certainly don't. Yet all of us are paying such a tax that was levied on telephones 102 years ago, before any but 103-year-olds were born!
Hello?
That's right. Such a tax was passed by Congress in 1898 to support the Spanish-American War. And this tax has never been repealed.
There is just a chance that it could be, if enough of us put the pressure on our senators to see that H. R. 3916, "The Telephone Excise Tax Repeal," is passed by the Senate. It has already been passed by the House.
Vern Hansen
Los Gatos
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Campbell, California
