Resolution 036-1965RESOLUTION NO. 36-1965
A RESOLUTION URGING THE REPEAL OF THE FEDERAL
EXCISE TAX ON LOCAL AND LONG BISTPNCE .TELE-
PHONE SERVICES.
IPTHEREAS, the conditions of daily life have now caused
the use of telephone service to be a. necessity in the -transaction
of urgent business and the obtaining of emergency medical, police,
fire protection, and similar services, and can under no`circum-
stances be considered a luxury,'service, .and
WHEREAS, telephone users have with just cause constantly
and insistently.demanded the repeal of this tax as unjust and -dis-
criminatory, and
WI-)�REAS, the Federal'Excise Tax restricts the use'of
telephone services, impairs the growth and improvement -of telephone
services, and discriminates against users of telephone services.
NOW, THEREFORE,.BE IT RESOLVED by the County Commissioners
of the County of Monroe that it strongly urges the Congress of
the United States to repeal the Federal Excise, Tax on communication
services.
BE IT FTJRTHER RESOLVED.that copies of this resolution
-be forwarded to the Florida Congressional Delegation, to the Ways
and !--leans Committee of the House of Representatives, to the Senate
Finance Committee-,'. to the, several, state. regulatory commissions,
and to the Federal Communications Commission.
Passed and adopted`,by ;th.e County Commission at a
meeting held this 25th day of May A 1). 19 65.
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Attest:
County glerk