Anti-tax Group Launches Web Site
to Oppose E-rate
The National Taxpayers Union launched a Web site August 18 to oppose the embattled e-rate program. The powerful lobbying group maintains that the Federal Communications Commission's actions in establishing the telecommunications discount program for schools and libraries went beyond what Congress intended and thereby created a new tax.
The campaign's site contains a petition, an opinion poll, and other commentary urging the public to join in the group's ongoing efforts against the e-rate. NTU has dubbed the site "Gore Tax" because the vice-president has been an outspoken advocate of the e-rate.
Widely praised as a boon to libraries and education, the e-rate constitutes an estimated 19 cents of every dollar paid into the universal service fund used to ensure the availability of phone service for all members of the public.
Posted August 31, 1998.
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