Jim Dale wrote:
April 1, 2005

Pursuant to an act of Congress the following bill has passed and has
been signed into law. The bill { The Radio Spectrum User Act of 2005}

took effect April 1, 2005.

This bill assignees a user tax for all receivers, radios, tuners,
TV's,
cell phones and satellite equipment working or not. It covers audio,
video, analog and digital. The tax is determined by what the
equipment
can do. The tax will be good for one year and will need to be renewed

every year. The taxes will be determined by the following schedule.

Tax Schedule

Radio base tax. $10.00

Tax for each band

i.e., AM, SW, LW $10.00

Each 1 Mhz coverage $10.00

Non working tax $50.00

Scanner base tax $10.00

Each 56 channels $5.00

Each 5 Mhz coverage $5.00

Non working tax. $25.00

TV base tax $20.00

Color $10.00

Black & White $25.00

HDTV $100.00

Cable $75.00

Non working tax $75.00

Analog cell phone $15.00

Digital phone $10.00

All residences may be subject to an inspection to verify compliance.
Non
working equipment taxes are good for one year only, This equipment
MUST
disposed of in an authorized disposal facility with in the one year
period. Any equipment this is not registered within the allotted time
is
subject to fines 10X's the original tax or confiscation and or jail
time.

April Fools!