In tough fiscal times, everything needs to be monetized. Including morality.
And governors and legislators in many cash-strapped states have decided that vice can be lucrative, in the form of sin taxes.
Texas, Georgia and Pennsylvania have considered “pole taxes” — for buyers of pornography and patrons of strip clubs and escort services.
Seven states last year either enacted new taxes on alcohol or raised old ones, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Since January 2009, 22 states have increased their tobacco taxes, and now South Carolina, which has held its cigarette tax at 7 cents a pack for more than three decades, may follow. In Nevada, the State Senate has discussed expanding, and taxing, legalized prostitution. Proposals for soda and candy taxes are also percolating in places like New York, Colorado and Washington State.
In California, advocates of marijuana legalization are pointing to the tax revenue that will be generated.
And 25 states have expanded or considered expanding their sanctioned gambling operations.
“The honest way to raise more revenue would be to raise income tax rates,” said Peter L. Faber, a tax lawyer and partner at McDermott Will & Emery in New York. “But it is more politically attractive to tax these kinds of things. No one can get mad at you for taxing people who drink too much,” meaning tipplers are fair game.
Cloaking taxes in moral terms is not new. Advocates for ending Prohibition during the depths of the Great Depression argued that the “noble experiment” hadn’t reduced drinking, while desperate social conditions had grown worse. Prohibition, they argued, encouraged cooperation with organized crime and contempt for the law.
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I didnt know smoking pot, much less drinking, was a morality issue. What they ought to tax are politicians that use hookers and rich businessmen and priests who pay a pretty price for young boys and girls to do naughty things.
ReplyDeleteThe tone of this article comes across as being disdainful of efforts to reduce government restrictions on personal actions.
ReplyDeleteIt gets ZERO sympathy from me.
Simply stated:
fellow citizens ... get your DAMN NOSE OUT OF MY BUSINESS!
What I put in MY body is none of your business!
Whether I watch sports, pornography, whether I smoke tobacco or weed, drink alcohol...IT'S NONE OF YOUR G..Damn business as long as I don't overtly affect you.
Go to your tax exempt church, stuff your body with fatty food, watch brainless TV and videos.
You stay in your space, I'll stay in mine.
And please, let's ditch this facade of a tax code (thicker than the bible and filled with loopholes).
Let's go with a simple percentage tax on wealth.
A tax code not formulated by paid off politician's loopholes for monied interests.
The photo above shows how difficult it is for Mary the Ukranian Pole Dancer.
ReplyDelete"Taxes are ruining me financially. It's to the point where I cannot afford the finer things a lady needs to put on a good show."
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ReplyDeleteWhen you have to show a pic of a Hell's Angels pole dancing, you know this is nothing more than a dog and pony show(the Depression that is, EA has some great articles)
Where I live in the Midwest this has been nothing but a pimple on the ass of a whale, and nothing has really changed. I know this is not the case elsewhere as I have seen it firsthand, but just becuase you have hard times in a few other regions doen not make it a nation wide depression!
I now understand why I have seen so damn many Uhauls coming up from CA, FL and NV though, as these folks obviously want a better quality of life in this area since there are still jobs to be had, and we don't have losers like Arnold the pussy running the show. I had to laugh when he was knocking Iowa a few months back(not from there but near by). Funny thing is I read the other day they will still be in the black at least for this year, and there are still jobs in that state you can find, as well as others in SD,MN and NE, a few others as well.
Our winters are not very nice sometimes,LOL but it's still a paycheck
When reading an article like this on the great freedom in American lifestyle culture and showing a sexual liberation that is likely to expand even more creatively in the economic opportunities provided in an economic depression for making a buck.
ReplyDeleteI feel grateful that the U.S. has a military prepared to fight for the export of american values and particularly Christian American family values to the third world.
Liberating Moslem women from the veil and all that sex inhibiting stuff.
Forget about cars , Americans could build a great export industry and true economic recovery if they exported more of these poles to the rest of the world.
Meanwhile here is what some had to say looking at U.S. birth patterns .
“High-school pregnancies, once a mark of shame, have become a badge of honor–and proved no barrier to Sarah Palin’s campaign. The new mood, fostered by Bush’s family and economic policies, is not confined to the rural South, but is apparent even in affluent Massachusetts. This impression of some Iranian Moslem writers is backed by facts.
Almost 40% of U.$. births in 2007 went to unwed mothers
By contrast, less (probably much less) than 11% of Iranian births are out-of-wedlock,
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These women need liberating america!
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