Wildbill, Great Job. I want you to know that your previous posts are right on the money about how to influence legislation (I have some personal experience with this, but we will leave it at that). However, I have another suggestion that will work well.
Find a Senator on the Committee that is now considering the legislation. It needs to be one who is up for election and faces serious competition. My suggestion would be a Republican since they have more influence. You inform that Senator of your position and ask him for suport in stopping this legislation. If he says "no", you then arrange for everyone interested in this legislation to pool money in an effort to remove that one senator. When you go back to him in a month and say, " We now have $1 million, will you consider our position" he will listen. Once he is in the bag you move on to the next senator. The only way these guys listen is to threaten their political livlihood. The only way to do that is with considerable sums of money. I can imagine that if this becomes law, the total effects will be far greater than $1 Million. IF the large books can put together this type of money and go senator-to-senator you can make a difference. If you try to spread your resources it will not work. The key is to make each one of these guys think that you have chosen them as the number one target. And that you are willing to spend $1 Million to remove them from office. I can assure you this bill is not that important to them.<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by WildBill:
Come on, it won't be passed until September at the earliest, if at all. Even then transferring money is not illegal. It is true, Neteller would do well diversifying a bit, but how can that happen when Ebay buys out Pay Pal and then shuts down every other method of transfer basically. Bottom line is if your money is in Neteller you will get it unless Neteller goes under. It won't be the law blocking your money and I highly doubt Neteller would stop being involved in the business because that is about all they do and they do it well.
Still the ignorance stuns me. People start reading these bills, start thinking about them as well. Don't just be the normal fool who makes a knee jerk reaction to the news. The sad thing is I bet at least 75% of the people that regularly post on here still don't know exactly what the law says and what it covers. They are simply assuming the worst, or in the minority saying "screw them, I always get down no matter what".<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>