Even if this was enacted, it wouldn’t do anything but cause people to not link to your stuff. This is especially true with news organizations since they’re all reporting on the same event (granted, with various levels of bias). If I can link to one outlet for free but I have to pay the other guy some moneys to link to theirs, you better believe that I’m going to link to the free one. And then they’ll happily rake in all that ad money.
Plus, there’s no guarantee that social media sites would even allow the paid links. Twitter or Facebook only has to say “Sorry, kid, but they’ll charge us for you to post that. And we don’t think it’s worth it. Oh, does this upset you? Well, what are you gonna do? Go to Google Plus?”
