I'm the Anon guy up above, anyway. Putting aside the fact that we're not a democracy. We already tax outside our jurisdiction, often. Currently we are taxing Iraq's oil reserves to help drum up and fund a war. Every year each citizen of the US pays an unconstitutional income tax. We tax every country in the world a sur-charge to buy oil, since by international law(which we strong armed into place), all oil transactions must be payed for with US Dollars. We tax in so many places we don't have jurisdiction over its not even funny. Inside and outside our borders. The revolutionary war was fought because of double and triple taxing of goods, and we do that too. Not on everything, certainly. But some good are taxed at the point of gathering, the point of refinement/production, and at the point of sale. The only reason, online sellers have gotten the ride they've gotten so far away from taxes, is no one can agree on HOW to tax them. You're highly deluding yourself if you think the government isn't salivating on the revenue stream.
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