Democratic web tax

It's often hard for a good website to make money. Advertising is the standard means nowadays, but the little revenue left by tired and jaded surfers is being eroded by ad-blockers and screen-scraping tools. Many sites now sell merchandise, but this is basically selling popularity in favour of money - try to get too much out, and you have nothing left of either. A site can find itself paying for huge numbers of hits withoug getting much revenue.

I suggest that citizens of rich countries pay, either forcibly to the government or voluntarily to some charity, a quite reasonable amount of money. This money goes into a pot and gets distributed around the sites that are deemed worth supporting.

What sites are chosen? The ones you vote for. Using your citizen ID, or some similar anti-spoofing method, you would go to the organization's site and vote for those sites that you think deserve your money. So even though the halfbakery has no adverts and sells no merchandise, you are still supporting it.

Your votes will be kept private of course. Porn and spam will be forcibly excluded from the list, and sites with an obvious source of income (such as large companies) may need more votes before they are included than a poor little blog.