Greetings:

I wouldn't worry too much about this Lee. It's unenforceable.

State Senators think up great ideas like that, but what they don't have a vision of, is the technical challenges involved.

Sure, they found 5 or 6 companies willing to take tens of millions of dollars from the States to develop a, drum roll please, "system".

They'll soon realize that trying to interface their "system" into the thousands of commercial and free ecommerce systems out there is impossible, and the courts would be quick to react to the undue hardship caused to commercial entities by forcing them to switch to a compatible system.

Then, even if all that weren't challenge enough, the system would get hacked within 10 minutes of being online by some disgruntled teenager that's pissed off he has to pay an extra $1.25 to buy the latest expansion pack for Final Fantasy Online.

Then, even if all of that weren't enough, what happens if I switch to processing through someone like, oh, say, Verotel that's located in the Netherlands. THEN what are they going to do?

Online sales tax? Not gonna happen.

The idea of taxing actual internet connections isn't going to happen either. The USA is WAY WAY WAY behind when it comes to getting its citizens hooked up via broadband. The Feds won't allow anything to be put in place that would further hinder that transition.