Headline from today's Albuquerque Journal:
President in N.M.
CLINTON EXTOLS NET
Online Rewards
Promised For
Indian Economy
...followed by an article concerning El Presidente's visit to the Navajo
Nation. Included therein, the following "announcement" he made:
"A plan to provide basic telephone service to American Indians
for $1 a month. That would be financed by raising universal
service assessments on interstate and international carriers
by 0.4 percent. While more than 95 percent of all U.S. homes
have telephones, in American Indian homes this number is close
to half, according to federal officials."
So there we have it: another tax implemented not by Congress, but by
executive decree. Oh, damn... did I call it a "tax"? Sorry, I meant to
say "universal service assessment."
"From all, according to their abilities; to all, depending to their
needs."
gag.
