There's no tax/fee to have access to tv & radio in the US. I'm aware there is in the UK; didn't know about Germany. And in some countries, there's a fee/tax on recording media (tapes, CDs) that goes to benefit performers in some roundabout way, on the theory that some of those media will be used to make copies of copyrighted material.

There's *no* way any politician in the US could successfully propose any kind of "internet tax." And if it were proposed, there'd be no way to enforce payment, and the lawsuits about "I don't have to pay that because ..." would be epic monstrosities of advanced buzzword hype.

I don't know if a tax would be "bad" or not (although it seems weird to me, 'cos I grew up without any tax on access-to-media-content), but I do know there's no way to make it happen.