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Will it be the clubs paying this tax?



While it may be the club that actually, physically pays the tax....you can be sure it won't come out of their pockets. They will either raise the rent payout for the dancers.... raise admission for the customer....or raise drink prices so their profit isn't cut into.
Question.....how in the world would the state ever have a clue whether the club had 100 customers in a night they were supposed to pay taxes on...or if they had 500?




I think it's great that Houston PD wants to start sending out rape kits for analysis, but I'm a little put off that they decide strip clubs are the place to raise revenue. I really dislike how strip clubs and adult workers get the brunt of fees/fines/tickets/harassment from customers and police. Toys for Tots refused donations from my home club two years ago, how sick is that? But the managers, DJs, police running traffic stings, and the cities imposing 'dance card' requirements eat into dancers' money. It's unfair, and on top of all that we are expected to pay taxes while no one stands up for our right to keep the majority of our earnings. I have easily paid out/tipped/spent $60,000 in two years on fines/fees/supplies/tickets/etc...and you know what? I could really fucking use that money right now for school and so I could take time off and concentrate on my classes. I can't do that because everyone has their hand in line to take something from the strippers in the clubs and it's bullshit.
The reason my rant relates to this thread is because you damn well know the owners of the clubs will find a way to throw the cost of $5/customer entering the club onto the dancers. They will raise the house fees, fine girls more, etc...all of which are illegal business practices anyway because they violate the terms of the contract and the laws regarding independent contractor/employee status.
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True Laurisa. Overall it puts more "squeeze" on the dancers. But i think they will squeeze as much money as they can get out of dancers, ...with or without the tax. Wish the clubs would advertise how much money is being recouped for rape kit analysis. And remind the public that "the tax money collected for protecting and assisting raped women" is in jeopardy every time the city raids clubs or tries to shut them down. Clubs should demand accountability for the pole tax money collected to see if is really effectively spent where cities claim it is. While cities are at it, why not tax an entry fee at every restaurant & bar that serves alcohol. Then spend the money on victims of drunk drivers ,as well as, evidence/court costs related to drunk drivers? Bar drinking seems more related to drunk drivers than rape does to strip clubs. Its just more demonizing and moralistic politics disguised as a law/tax.
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I hated Jezebel's bit about how it's, like, justice. As if all strip club patrons are rapists in the waiting or something.




Interesting.....Chicago is dealing w/ the same thing, currently. I wonder how many other cities are gonna be hit by this same tax in some way, shape or form...?
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This is just a government attempt to tax these operations. I doubt there will have to be some sort of customer tally kept. Clubs will be forced to pay some sort of lump sum tax every year based on estimated customer totals. I know of only one club around here already equipped with turnstiles and i don't think the government is going to force all clubs to add them in the parts of the country where they want to take a bigger bite out of them.. On top of that, the money probably will not find it's way into an account devoted to rape kits. That's just a ploy used by the government to "sell" the tax. They'll ask the public where the money is better off.....in facilitating rape prosecutions or remaining in the pockets of adult entertainment? In all likelihood, the money will just go into the general fund. Its a bait and switch game.
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Just found this link on Tits & Sass that applies. Here we go.
http://titsandsass.com/pole-taxes-not-genius/#more-9000
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-- Bob Dylan
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Hanna recently published Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right (T&S review coming soon!) which takes the faulty “secondary effects” studies that blames strip clubs for increasing crime and breaks it down for the propaganda it is. I wrote about the myth of secondary effects here after the Texas Supreme Court’s decision came down, and it’s good they’re being exposed for the shoddy research they are. But while debunked fake statistics are what the Texas Supreme Court based its opinion on, the bigger legal issue is that they declared that the pole tax didn’t violate First Amendment rights by taxing a specific business for a specific purpose. Should they decide to tax, say, fast food to fund diabetes treatment or bars for victims of drunk drivers, they’d have legal precedent to do so. More taxes like this are certainly in the works as states scramble to deal with budget deficits
All I can add is that last week's Supreme Court decision re Obamacare pretty much abandons any past precedent that the leveeing of taxes and the beneficiaries of those taxes must bear some close correlation to each other. Last week's Supreme Court decision pretty much gave legislators 'carte blanche' to enact any tax they want as long as the case can be made that some social benefit is achieved. Arguably, this can directly trickle down to new 'sin' taxes of all sorts, including a strip club 'pole' tax ... which from a legal precedent standpoint is arguably very similar to the new ( and just upheld ) Obamacare tax on tanning salons.
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