Ya that sucks.
I'm not american but if I was, I would vote Obama.
But I actually dislike Biden because of comments he made in the movie "Bigger, Faster, Stronger" where he spewed a load of incorrect crap about anabolic steroids being deadly drugs and comparing them to heroin and meth!
Luckily, I don't see any of those ideas in your post coming to fruition. How can you *ban* encryption? There are lots of open source programs for you to encrypt your whole hard drive or memory sticks. Plus, there will always be mail services like hushmail which have user-use encryption, making it impossible for anyone else to read your stuff. I don't see any conceivable way you could ban that.
Same goes for internet taxes.. somehow I can't see the public being in favour of that!