New 8% CA tax on adult entertainment considered
Now the question is, who's revenue is going to get taxed? The night club's or the dancer's?
A state lawmaker is pushing to tax X-rated products, sex shows, and explicit pay-per-view movies to help supplement public services.
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Calderon's Assembly Bill 1551 would assess an 8 percent tax on sexually explicit nightclub acts, items sold by sex shops and pay-per-view movies featuring unprotected sex or X-rated acts in a public place.
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AB 1551 would not apply to materials used by schools or sold incidentally in stores, or to nudity in a legitimate theater, ballet, opera, concert or other such performance.
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given that SoCal is the western world capital of the XXX rated movie industry, such a tax would in theory produce monster tax revenues. However, it would also probably prompt the existing XXX rated movie industry in California to consider moving to other US states or to Canada in order to avoid this new taxation.
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Melonie
given that SoCal is the western world capital of the XXX rated movie industry, such a tax would in theory produce monster tax revenues. However, it would also probably prompt the existing XXX rated movie industry in California to consider moving to other US states or to Canada in order to avoid this new taxation.
Actually, it's one particular city which is the capital of the industry in CA: Chatsworth,
http://www.answers.com/topic/chatswo...nia?cat=travel
Lots of other info about this city at this link as well.
Since Nevada actively recruits Cali businesses, several NV chambers of commerce could no doubt have a field day here if this bill is passed. But then, we also have an assembly rep here who is floating a bill to ban incandescent light bulbs. And we still can't boot 'em out of office at the ballot box due to the @^*$!~&* gerrymandering!
OT, but I'm starting to have a very tiny longing to go back to the methods our ancestors used to handle politicians. I.e., torches, pitchforks, rails and tar and feathers. These are kinder, gentler times now, though, so we'll have to substitute white glue for the tar, and I'm not sure which substitutes for pitchforks and torches would be viable today.}:D
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Deogol
AB 1551 would not apply to materials used by schools or sold incidentally in stores, or to nudity in a legitimate theater, ballet, opera, concert or other such performance.
Hmm....I smell a loophole already.
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PhaedrusZ
OT, but I'm starting to have a very tiny longing to go back to the methods our ancestors used to handle politicians. I.e., torches, pitchforks, rails and tar and feathers. These are kinder, gentler times now, though, so we'll have to substitute white glue for the tar, and I'm not sure which substitutes for pitchforks and torches would be viable today.}:D
I say foam kiddie baseball bats for the pitchforks, and orange glow sticks for the torches.
Err, perhaps not. After a few glowstick luminated beatings, they'd just ban the sale of both items. They did that to spray paint in Chicago after all.
:-\