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Strip clubs seek to block state's $5 surcharge
Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | 12-6-07

Posted on 12/06/2007 11:06:38 AM PST by Snickering Hound

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To: Normal4me

“The music is too loud to hear them anyways.”

And how do you know the music is to loud, my friend?


41 posted on 12/06/2007 11:39:35 AM PST by bilhosty
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To: Snickering Hound
we believe in the merits of our position

I believe in the merits of the strippers position.

42 posted on 12/06/2007 11:39:56 AM PST by bird4four4 (Behead those who suggest Islam is violent!)
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To: sinanju

Have all the srippers in one club have the Bill of Rights or “Live Free or Die” tatooed on their butts and make a test case out of it. Hey, maybe even a verse from the koran and really raise hell.


43 posted on 12/06/2007 11:49:57 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: sinanju

I fully understand what you are saying, which is why I emphasized the word ‘might.’

There are plenty of people who, for whatever reason, disapprove of strip clubs and so will consider this a good thing - but they do so without looking at the bigger picture. I see this on a regular basis when debating smoking bans and tobacco tax increases, it is the same principle. The thought process is “sure, why not, it doesn’t hurt me.” The problem with that attitude is that someday it will be something that will hurt them in some way or another.


44 posted on 12/06/2007 11:51:04 AM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: dblshot

Pole taxes.

Snicker.


45 posted on 12/06/2007 11:52:08 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

“maybe even a verse from the koran and really raise hell”....just stamp “Muslim teddy buns” on their rearends and see what happens.


46 posted on 12/06/2007 11:53:40 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: craig_eddy

They are worried about the money. Just what is it that they are ‘trying to do’?

“It’s expected to raise about $40 million to be dispersed for sexual assault prevention programs and health care for the uninsured.”

So how much gets dispersed, and how much goes into the states general kitty and used for other purposes?

Is it the same percentage that disappears into the general kitty taken in from gambling casinos? (The money goes to the schools.... yeah. Like %10 does.)


47 posted on 12/06/2007 11:54:46 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (-Not Afraid of the truth, and the whole truth - Are you?)
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To: sinanju

This is like a protection racket run by the mafia.


48 posted on 12/06/2007 11:55:35 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Hillary = Senator Incitatus, Clintigula's whore...er, horse.)
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To: JamesP81
I see that even in Texas the government isn’t above thinking of new and creative ways of helping themselves to other people’s money.Isn't that what lawyers .... Oooooops ..... of course I mean politicians do. We all know that lawyers who get elected to the legislature have no personal intrests in the laws that they make.
49 posted on 12/06/2007 11:55:58 AM PST by fella (The proper application of the truth far more important than the knowledge of it's existance."Ike")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Better yet, stamp “Muhammad’s Teddy Buns” on their rears...


50 posted on 12/06/2007 11:57:19 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Gabz
I might, MIGHT, consider the first part justified, but funding for health care???????

If they confine it to spending on OB-GYNs it might fly.

51 posted on 12/06/2007 11:57:32 AM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: bilhosty

HBO specials.... ;-)


52 posted on 12/06/2007 11:59:24 AM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

The “Live Free or Die” tatoo may only be applied to the strippers’ butts by legal residents of New Hampshire. ;-)


53 posted on 12/06/2007 12:01:02 PM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Gabz

Regarding tobacco taxes and lotteries funding health care and education is that even us orn’ry folks are getting wise to the fact that the promised windfalls never materialize and taxes inevitably get raised across the board in “emergency” funding measures.

But in a broader sense all “soak-the-rich” tax schemes as well as “sin taxes” inevitably lead to the same result.


54 posted on 12/06/2007 12:01:42 PM PST by sinanju
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To: dashing doofus

“Ladies and gentlemen, dashing doofus is our ‘come from behind’ winner in the strippers’ butts contest.”


55 posted on 12/06/2007 12:05:17 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: JoeSixPack1

Government charity is good for re-election votes “see what I did for you...”


56 posted on 12/06/2007 12:08:17 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: weegee

Just a thought....but couldn’t we start a “gay-senator-waving-at-you-in-the-airport-toilet-tax”?

I’m thinking of a $750 tax everytime they catch such a situation occurring...and we use to money to pay for drug eradication in Bolivia. I also have this idea of a Saudi-visa fee....of $38k for each month they want to stay in the US past the first 14 days.


57 posted on 12/06/2007 12:09:27 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Snickering Hound

If you hire a skank, we’ll tax your wank....cause I’m the tax man, yeah yeah yeah....


58 posted on 12/06/2007 12:09:43 PM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: sinanju

Legalizing drugs just moves the DEA under the ATF.


59 posted on 12/06/2007 12:10:50 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: dashing doofus

Wonder how much of this “health care” is taxpayer funded abortions.


60 posted on 12/06/2007 12:12:11 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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