Porn Tax Considered As Solution To Budget Shortfall

Four Points ^ | 5-23-08 | Doug G. Ware

[Gritty]

Watching the downhill slide of California is like watching a rerun of 1930's Nazi Germany.

Nobody can believe the implications of what is actually happening so they are averting their eyes and hope somehow things will reverse course and it will turn out all right.

[varyouga]

It's pretty easy to tax and enforce considering most porn is sold on-line with electronic payments.

But a 25% tax is ridiculous. They also have to pay state and federal tax so they're total tax would be around ~70%. Southern Cali has favorable laws for the ‘industry’ but I suspect they will all relocate if these laws pass.

Overseas competition will kill yet another US industry that we used to be #1 in. All because of our smart government and taxes.

[Erasmus]

What’s to stop the pornographers from moving to Dallas, Des Moines, Denver or Duluth? Are these socialist legislators morons? Are they really trying to drive EVERY industry out of California?

Debbie already did the first one, but I think she's game for the next three.

[jetson]

$12 bill a year in services to illegals and no ideas how to cut the budget.

Hey! This make sense! You can't suggest things that make sense or are true! The king has no clothes in Calif. DON'T CHA KNOW.

[Joan Kerrey]

porn producers could leave California
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This would be devastating to those of us who have made our living via porn. I’m almost 70 years old and productions I star in aren’t selling too well anymore but it’s still a living and I don’t think it’s fair to ask me and other aging stars to move to Nevada. We’ve made our home in So. Cal. This proposal is age discrimination, pure and simple!

[television is just wrong]

the dems keep playing the same old song. find an industry

(doesn’t matter what it is)

if it is profitable tax it to death.

If it moves out, find a new business to tax to death.

[television is just wrong]

the dems don’t consider it age discrimination. they look at it as you are going to support their socialistic values whether you approve or not is irrelevant.

[SlapHappyPappy]

The question I have is this: Why on earth would people still buy porn videos and DVD’s?

[mikrofon]

many economists believe that pornography is an industry with inelastic demand

From what I understand of the subject, the attire varies depending on the whim of the participants...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

One FReeper suggested that CA should lease it’s oil and gas deposits off its coasts to the oil companies and not only would they solve their budget crises, they’d have energy too.

[sailor4321]

Wouldn’t any tax be a “stiff” penalty?