Typical Democrat over-taxation: $5 tax to enter strip clubs in Texas

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22360824/

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In what some have dubbed the "pole tax," the Lone Star State will require its 150 or so strip clubs to collect a $5-per-customer levy, with most of the proceeds going to help rape victims. The tax goes into effect on New Year's Day.

"This is an industry that largely employs women, and this gives them an opportunity to raise funds for a crime that affects women," said state Rep. Ellen Cohen, a Houston Democrat who sponsored the bill, approved by the Legislature in May.

"I've been told the fees to get into these places can be $10, $15. I don't think another $5 is going to prevent someone from going," said Cohen, who is also president of a women's center that could get funding from the new law.
 
The majority of state legislators in Texas are Republican, so I would also call this typical Republican legislation of morality.
 
[quote name='dafoomie']The majority of state legislators in Texas are Republican, so I would also call this typical Republican legislation of morality.[/QUOTE]

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[quote name='dafoomie']The majority of state legislators in Texas are Republican, so I would also call this typical Republican legislation of morality.[/quote]

You know how tired CAGs are of people like you clogging up political discussions with facts?
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']Hilarious sidenote.

Some of the people who voted against this:

Aycock, Hancock, Hardcastle, Crabb.[/QUOTE]
HILARIOUS!!
 
[quote name='Sideshow']You know how tired CAGs are of people like you clogging up political discussions with facts?[/quote]

Thank you sideshow, now if we could all just get back to letting VG believe that anything done in Texas could be considered an act done by democrats I think we would all be much better off.
 
[quote name='pittpizza']Thank you sideshow, now if we could all just get back to letting VG believe that anything done in Texas could be considered an act done by democrats I think we would all be much better off.[/quote]

Hey those democrats like Mit Romney do some fucked up shit like this. We need a good republican president next like Ralph Nader.


P.S. - I do enjoy how he'd like to argue his point, but like most republicans don't read the papers, so he really has no facts to back what he says. I mean, we need a good democrat in office who says shit like "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King" and cries when he visualizes his sons in Iraq, even though his sons drive a winnebago around and none of them have ever served in the military.
 
People who visit strip clubs have to pay a Rape Tax?

Look, I have little problem with taxing services, if the government needs that money, but doing this Rape Tax is simply insulting.
 
[quote name='PyroGamer']People who visit strip clubs have to pay a Rape Tax?

Look, I have little problem with taxing services, if the government needs that money, but doing this Rape Tax is simply insulting.[/quote]


Seriously. That's like charging people that attend church a tax for consuming alcohol.
 
[quote name='dafoomie']The majority of state legislators in Texas are Republican, so I would also call this typical Republican legislation of morality.[/QUOTE]

This.
 
[quote name='Sarang01']This legislation is absurd. It assumes everyone who enters one is a degenerate.[/quote]

She assumes that people will pay $5 more to see boobies because they are. Can't say I disagree :lol:
 
[quote name='Sarang01']This legislation is absurd. It assumes everyone who enters one is a degenerate.[/quote]

I don't see what the big deal is. People can pay $40 for a lap dance, but not an extra $5 to enter the place?
 
[quote name='dafoomie']The majority of state legislators in Texas are Republican, so I would also call this typical Republican legislation of morality.[/quote]

And I would call the OP a duffus. :)
 
[quote name='camoor']wha?[/quote]

Threw in an extra "of" for no reason. The poster was insulted that the politican was somewhat implying that strip club patrons are degenerates. I said that she's banking on them being as such and using that "boobies at any cost" creed to get the extra $5. I can't say that I disagree with her line of thinking.
 
[quote name='davo1224']Threw in an extra "of" for no reason. The poster was insulted that the politican was somewhat implying that strip club patrons are degenerates. I said that she's banking on them being as such and using that "boobies at any cost" creed to get the extra $5. I can't say that I disagree with her line of thinking.[/quote]
K.

The way to get around this is to give every patron an easel. Then it's naked figure drawing and they can flip the situation by getting one of those govt grants supporting the arts!
 
I live in her district. People aren't happy about this. Not because she did it, not because it was passed. Because when she ran against the incumbent, she ran on a platform that (correctly) pointed out that incumbent was a scumsucking politicking liar that would never come right out and state her intentions. I fully supported Ellen Cohen for that reason alone.

And now, without giving anyone the slightest clue (in her district at least) that she had this in mind, she introduced this bill and then dared people to call her out on it, with her spokesperson thumping opposition with allusions to tacit acceptance of misogyny.

I'll be voting against her next go round. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']Hilarious sidenote.

Some of the people who voted against this:

Aycock, Hancock, Hardcastle, Crabb.[/quote]

Ha! I wonder what the peoples' names are who voted for it.
 
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