The numbers I've seen for the "tax" look like the only ones that will be affected are major spammers. Lotsa zeros after the decimal point. So what's the problem?

Think about it for a minute. What would the Gov't need to collect a tax like this? Well, every e-mail client and gateway would have to have a secure component to log e-mail messages. This component would have to be queried by the Gov't computers to calculate the "tax".

Now a simple software upgrade can also tell if you are sending messages to an "inappropriate" location.

Expect the "upgrade" sometime in President Buchannan's second term ....