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(Unverified)Jan 9th 2007 6:02PM

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A cookie to the first reader who can point to the part of the Constitution enabling the US Congress to do this.

If you cop out and point to the Commerce Clause, you'd better be ready to defend the idea that a state taxing its own residents for a service they buy from a business that is also a resident of the same state is somehow Commerce Between The Several States.

That said, I don't think that an "internet tax" (not sure, but it sounds an awful lot like the telephone tax that the IRS just killed -- the one put in place to fund the Spanish-American war) is anything but a horrible idea, I just think it falls the to the states to decide, hopefully against it. A very wise man once said, "If you want less of something, tax it." Do we want less Internet?

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