DolaMight
12-21-2007, 04:19 PM
Texas Adds 'Pole Tax' to Strip Clubs for $5-Per-Customer Levy
In what some have dubbed the "pole tax," the Lone Star State will require its 150 or so strip clubs to collect a $5-per-customer levy, with most of the proceeds going to help rape victims. The tax goes into effect on New Year's Day.
(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317896,00.html)
Where do they get off making the connection that stripping leads to rape. I can understand tobacco tax revenue going to help lung cancer victims because there's proven cause and effect, but where is the evidence here? Why not tax porno, car companies that make white vans with no windows, or 3M for making duct tape. That would make no less sense than taxing strip clubs. If anything strip clubs may reduce rapes because weirdos that girls would never give the time of day to can actually get a nut off.
Bill author and sponsor:
"I've been told the fees to get into these places can be $10, $15. I don't think another $5 is going to prevent someone from going," said Cohen, who is also president of a women's center that could get funding from the new law.
I love how the PC police coward feels the need to say "I've been told" like she has to convince people she's never been to a strip club.
Local Stripper trying to argue against the tax:
But Elle, a 28-year-old former Dallas dancer, said she worries the tax will hurt women like herself who work their way through college by stripping. She earned a degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and said she now runs a computer-servicing business with her husband.
Elle said she averaged $200 a day at the Lodge — "on good days, a hell of a lot more."
Yeah college sure, original. And way to defend the plight of your former coworkers you defend. You're trying to convince the public to protest the new tax by bragging you make more in one night than they make in a week. Still can't help herself but to give the cliche rationale.
It's just political bullying and it's anti-free speech/expression, if you don't like strip clubs for moral reasons fine, than try to ban them, don't try to punish them in some dishonest fashion because politically they're an easy target.
Who's really the victim now?
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In what some have dubbed the "pole tax," the Lone Star State will require its 150 or so strip clubs to collect a $5-per-customer levy, with most of the proceeds going to help rape victims. The tax goes into effect on New Year's Day.
(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317896,00.html)
Where do they get off making the connection that stripping leads to rape. I can understand tobacco tax revenue going to help lung cancer victims because there's proven cause and effect, but where is the evidence here? Why not tax porno, car companies that make white vans with no windows, or 3M for making duct tape. That would make no less sense than taxing strip clubs. If anything strip clubs may reduce rapes because weirdos that girls would never give the time of day to can actually get a nut off.
Bill author and sponsor:
"I've been told the fees to get into these places can be $10, $15. I don't think another $5 is going to prevent someone from going," said Cohen, who is also president of a women's center that could get funding from the new law.
I love how the PC police coward feels the need to say "I've been told" like she has to convince people she's never been to a strip club.
Local Stripper trying to argue against the tax:
But Elle, a 28-year-old former Dallas dancer, said she worries the tax will hurt women like herself who work their way through college by stripping. She earned a degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and said she now runs a computer-servicing business with her husband.
Elle said she averaged $200 a day at the Lodge — "on good days, a hell of a lot more."
Yeah college sure, original. And way to defend the plight of your former coworkers you defend. You're trying to convince the public to protest the new tax by bragging you make more in one night than they make in a week. Still can't help herself but to give the cliche rationale.
It's just political bullying and it's anti-free speech/expression, if you don't like strip clubs for moral reasons fine, than try to ban them, don't try to punish them in some dishonest fashion because politically they're an easy target.
Who's really the victim now?
http://www.foundrymusic.com/common_images/member_galleries/33_072620071053471185461627109.jpg