At 05:08 AM 8/7/96 GMT, Brian C. Lane wrote:

A slight correction. They are imposing a 6% tax on the Gross receipts of all Internet Providers who have customers in Tacoma. This includes AOL, Compu$erve, and my local favorites - aa.net and eskimo.com

So if someone has six thousand customers, one of whom is in Tacoma, they want six percent of his gross on the other 5999 customers? --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com