This is BS. Someone dreamed this up one night when they were smoking crack!
Just like the lawmakers want to tax the sale of cigarettes sold online: "I" say then they better start with the online Auctions first! This stuff is getting out of hand. I wish we could clean out the House and Senate and start over. These guys are smoking dope. Or else they are taking too much Viagra........most of them are old jerk-offs anyway.
No, at least not at this time.
First, the internet technology is still developing and it represents a great productivity boost. Government should supplement this technology and the Fed's prohibiting taxes does that.
Second, how to tax it is problematic. If the transaction is considered to occur at the seller's location, seller's of any substantial volume will quickly locate to the lowest tax zones in the country. If the transaction is considered to occur at the buyer's location, then both the tax calculation which presumably would include both state and local taxes, as well as enforcement are difficult. If and when it is taxed, the Federal Government will have to set the rules.
Third, I'm not in favor of giving government more taxes. They need to manage what they get now better.