From Strip Clubs To Hotel Beds: The Lay Of Sex Laws
Posted by: Olivia Allin
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2:00PM, Sunday March 15th 2009
You can take our dignity but not our porn! New York’s Governor Paterson is pitching new taxes to help the state’s $14 billion budget deficit. Among them: a $10 tax for strip club patrons and tax on Internet downloads for web porn. Similarly, Texas pols want to place a $5 “pole tax” which was struck down as unconstitutional by a state judge. Oh yeah, the forgotten “right to bare boobs.” Most of these skin taxes have stalled because of conflicts with the First Amendment. No porno, no peace! After the jump, other laws striving to cash in on sex…
- Florida is considering raising taxes on adult magazines, strip clubs, and “other sex-themed products.” That’s probably for the best since old people are all over-sexed anyways. [MSNBC]
- Washington state has already endorsed a tax hike on adult movies and other sex-themed products. Still, they want higher sales tax on flesh mags, pornographic photographs, movies, cable and telephone services, audiotapes, computer programs and paraphernalia. I don’t like that they’re taxing
my best friendvibrators…but I guess our boyfriends can’t afford porn anymore so maybe it will even out? [Seattle Times] - Santa Rosa, CA lawmakers are in discussion over tax increases including a hotel bed tax from 9 to 12%, which would generate about $1.2 million. Hotel bed sex is the best kind; it’s like Russian roulette with germy body fluid! [Press Democrat]
- Legislators passed a 3% hotel bed tax increase in Las Vegas which projections show will raise about $230 million. These numbers illustrate how many more hotels there are in Vegas than Santa Rosa…You know, Vegas. Where prostitution
is legalmay as well be served on the city’s famous buffets. Good one. [Las Vegas Sun]
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Yellow
wrote on March 15 2009 @ 02:47 pm: [report]
Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas… the legal status of prostitution is by county, and Clark County (home of Vegas) does not allow it. Counties have to have a population of less than 400,000 to be elgible for legal prostitution in Nevada, so Clark can’t make the cut.
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on March 15 2009 @ 04:03 pm: [report]
I find this truly pathetic, they are looking to generate tax revenue everywhere down to raising taxes on hotel rooms wtf.
At least there is an intelligent conversation going on about our marijuana laws, despite not this level of enthusiasm.
retro chic
wrote on March 15 2009 @ 05:59 pm: [report]
They’re recession-proof industries as a Death & Taxes certainty in an uncertain world.
Guess Vegas wants it ALL to stay there… except for your stinking corpse, until they find a way to tax that too.
flyerdu
wrote on March 16 2009 @ 02:31 am: [report]
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jessicapauline
wrote on March 20 2009 @ 04:24 pm: [report]
these laws are such #&@$%! why tax sex-themed businesses? as a punishment to people for being sexual? or as an attempt to take business away from the adult industry? it jsut seems like another not-so-covert attempt to close down the sex industry—which in the end ultimately hurts the women who work there the most. but lawmakers aren’t exactly known for their concern for sex workers well being, i guess…