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    Default Strip clubs want access to coronavirus small business loans

    https://nypost.com/2020/04/15/strip-...stimulus-cash/

    They may not be essential, but strip clubs and lobbying firms are legal small businesses and now a handful of them in the Midwest are suing the federal government because they’ve been denied funds from the federal coronavirus stimulus bill, a report said Wednesday.

    Three jiggle joints in Flint, Michigan, Milwaukee and Middleton, Wisconsin, filed the suits this week because their businesses were denied loans offered in the bill designed to help small businesses, CNN reported.


    The clubs fear they will have to permanently close if they aren’t given access to those loans.


    In addition, the Denver-based lobbying firm Ridder/Braden Inc. is also suing, saying the bill is preventing them “from obtaining much needed cash to cover payroll and health insurance for their employees.”


    Rick Ridder, a Democrat, who is a partner in the firm, told CNN that lobbyists “didn’t take care of themselves” when politicians in Washington were hashing out the specifics of the stimulus law.


    Some small businesses are eligible for loans of up to $10 million under the new legislation, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump as a way to stave off economic collapse amid the coronavirus outbreak.


    But sex-related businesses like strip clubs are not eligible for the federal loans. Political lobbying groups were also barred from taking cash.

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    Default Re: Strip clubs want access to coronavirus small business loans

    Obviously the lobbying forms don's provide useful services.
    Last edited by slowpoke; 04-19-2020 at 12:41 PM.

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    Default Re: Strip clubs want access to coronavirus small business loans

    Federal Court Rules That Strip Clubs Are Entitled To Pandemic Loans

    The court began with the threshold position that “nude dancing is a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.” The court then concluded:

    “By using the plaintiffs’ expression as a reason to exclude them from the program, the SBA has introduced content discrimination into programs that were designed to be indifferent to speech. If the SBA could identify some legitimate governmental purpose for doing this, then perhaps the regulation could withstand an equal-protection challenge. But the only apparent purpose for this regulation is to exclude small businesses that express a disfavored message from programs that were created to assist all small businesses. Because that is not a legitimate governmental purpose, the SBA’s distinction violates equal-protection principles.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/...pandemic-loans

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