True, but the way these companies bring up Google as the poster child, they want to share in the profit or the popularity of Google not a realative flat tax on bytes.

But that still leave some ISP in the cold. What if the traffic traverses an ISP? ISP1 may not connect to the client or to Google, but traffic from client to Google travels over ISP1. (I'm thinking of the old WilTel days.) ISP1 would want its share from both parties.

Thus I do not see a bandwidth tax is what these ISP's are ultimately after.

But I do agree with you, they do want the government and everyone to think of them as starving arts trying to better man-kind, if those evil corporations will only allow them.

Thanks.