In Virginia, GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell recently won approval for overhauling his state's highway maintenance system by raising diesel and retail sales taxes and creating a mechanism for a potential future gasoline tax hike.
Last year a disagreement over Zimbabwe, where human rights groups estimated that at least 200 small-scale miners were killed when security forces seized the fields at Marange, came to a head when a divided KP concluded that it had no mechanism to stop Zimbabwe's diamond sales.
Though California residents, like most of us, have technically been required to pay a sales (or use) tax on their online purchase all along, there was never a mechanism in place for collecting this at the time of purchase.