На слешдоте сейчас идет обсуждения 'taxing email'
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/05/1055253.shtml?tid=126&tid=111
Кто не спит, может почитать. Там, в основном, народ против идеи. Мне понравилось вот это:
'I'm going to guess that you're an american. Americans tend to have this blind spot that extends from their borders and works outward. Most of them tend to ignore (and be ignorant of)the rest of the world. For example, in the movie Outbreak a plague is sweeping across the States. There is a scene where they extrapolate the spread of the disease. Curiously, it never crosses the borders'