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Bill Would Tax Internet Pornography
AP ^ | 7/22/5

Posted on 07/22/2005 5:44:35 PM PDT by SmithL

WASHINGTON -- A Democratic lawmaker is planning to propose a new 25 percent federal tax on Internet pornography and new requirements for adult Web sites to help prevent children from looking at them.

The bill, expected to be introduced next week by Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., would impose the excise tax on transactions with for-profit adult Web sites, which typically sell monthly subscriptions to Internet users to look at pornographic photographs or videos.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; blanchelincoln; democratandtaxes; doomed; internettaxes; moralitypolice; porn; weredoomed
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A democrat advocating a new tax. Wow.
1 posted on 07/22/2005 5:44:35 PM PDT by SmithL
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Bill Would Tax Internet Pornography

Tell Bill to ^%&*( off.
2 posted on 07/22/2005 5:47:14 PM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: SmithL

Like on other vice-type products, the tax will hardly decrease sales at all. My guess is that if the porn tax was high enough to relieve the national debt, there'd still be scads of it. But it would be a Faustian bargain.


3 posted on 07/22/2005 5:47:34 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: SmithL

Won't those sites just move off-shore?


4 posted on 07/22/2005 5:48:39 PM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: SmithL

absolutely impossible


5 posted on 07/22/2005 5:49:13 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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I guess this is the next best thing to the Dems pushing the legalization of prostitution.


6 posted on 07/22/2005 5:50:28 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: SmithL

I seem to recall that the porn industry supported the dims almost exclusively. Suckers!


7 posted on 07/22/2005 5:50:39 PM PDT by xp38
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Ah, but you see.....The U.N. has already made moves to secure control of the internet......

Then --- with Clintoon as U.N. Sec. General, they could pass taxes and pass gas to fund all the lovely U.N. goals and crooks....


Semper Fi


8 posted on 07/22/2005 5:51:14 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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Called the Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005

It's for the children!

9 posted on 07/22/2005 5:52:54 PM PDT by wingnutx (Seabees Can Do!)
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To: SmithL

This sounds red-state soccer mom focus group tested to me...

The question is whether Hillary will jump on this bandwagon, or figure out that Bill will be spending most of her salary on this new tax.


10 posted on 07/22/2005 5:53:07 PM PDT by nj26
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To: SmithL

Eureka! This will solve the problem!!!!!


11 posted on 07/22/2005 5:55:13 PM PDT by Dallas59 (" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
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To: river rat

As a citizen of one of the UN’s permanent security council members, Bill Clinton is not eligible to serve as Secretary General of the UN.


12 posted on 07/22/2005 5:55:44 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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Won't those sites just move off-shore?

Congratulations! You just solved the Democrats' plan! To raise taxes high enough that ALL business moves overseas, thus making the U.S. nothing more than a ghetto has-been nation on par with Mexico.

Step up and claim your prize. You'll have to ride with Senator Kennedy to go get it...

13 posted on 07/22/2005 5:55:54 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
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But what about freedom of choice?

I thought Democrats were pro-choice. Don't I have a choice to look at porno?

Aren't they interfering with that right as surely as a poll tax interferes with the right to vote?


14 posted on 07/22/2005 5:56:21 PM PDT by Maceman (Pro Se Defendant from Hell)
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I don't do drugs so I can't understand how TAXING porn will keep kids from looking at it. DOH!


15 posted on 07/22/2005 5:56:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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"t would compel sites to use specialized software to verify a customer's age, subject to enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission."

Stealth way to get the internet under FTC control. Start requiring intrusive software and there's no end of what government will be able to do.


16 posted on 07/22/2005 5:57:44 PM PDT by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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You've got to be kidding. Instead of focusing on the fact that we can't attract good industries here in eastern Arkansas and the fact that the region is economically stagnant, ol' Blanche is worried about taxing internet porn.

Sigh...


17 posted on 07/22/2005 5:58:14 PM PDT by VOR78
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Won't those sites just move off-shore?

99% of them are. Run the URL of your fav porn site through this and see where it's located.

How's Blanche Baby gonna force a porn site in Muldova to collect/pay the porn tax?

This is the same problem faced by those seeking to reduce/eliminate spam. 99% of the spammers are located overseas also. So how are you gonna shut down a spam site in Tibet?

And to make it even more interesting, the owners and operators of these sites don't have to reside overseas. They could be living right next door to you.

The Internet is both wonderful and horrible at the same time.

18 posted on 07/22/2005 5:59:09 PM PDT by upchuck ("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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The Democrats will be proposing a lot of legislation with a hidden agenda on a family values pretext. They want control of what is on the internet because it is the only form of media the Democrats don't have complete control over. You can't separate the porn from everything else, once they are through the door they have control.

Same thing goes for anti-spam legislation, they get their meat hooks in.

19 posted on 07/22/2005 6:00:14 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis
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To: SmithL

To collect such a tax would require Internet totalitarianism and overcoming the Bill of Rights. A lot of attorneys would get rich and probably not a dime of tax revenue would be realized.


20 posted on 07/22/2005 6:00:31 PM PDT by RightWhale (Substance is essentially the relationship of accidents to itself)
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