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    Hey folks,
    This post is especially relevant for dancers in NJ or Texas.
    I am a retired dancer, etc. I currently have a regular job running a rape crisis program in NJ. I also serve on some state level committees/ boards/ whatevers that effect policy, victim services, and sexual violence prevention efforts in our state.
    Currently, we are considering legislation to tax some part of the "adult entertainment industry" to fund our rape crisis programs. The idea has morphed from taxing porn (1st ammendment failure considerations) to taxing adult novelty items (I liked this one the best as it was the most sex positive) to taxing strip clubs.
    The strip club tax idea is gaining momentum. Texas, last year, imposed a $5/ head tax on customers, but the clubs are responsible for paying it, not the customers. They have raised over $50 million dollars in one year doing this. The money pays for victim services, police training, additional incarceration and treatment facilities for sex offenders, sexual assault examinations, and a bunch of other stuff related to sexual violence. This has made the strip club tax idea very popular here.
    Currently, our programs are very poorly funded. We are understaffed and underresourced. This year, for example, our program in our county almost closed due to a loss of funding. Our domestic violence programs in our state are partially funded through a fee which is attached to every marriage license, and this has provided those programs with very stable income, which our sexual assault programs have never had.
    Now, I know that most sex workers are inherently feminists, although they don't necessarily call themselves that, and most sex workers/ dancers would support additional funding for rape crisis/ counseling and prevention programs.
    What I keep bringing up at these meetings is the need for dancer input. To my knowledge, I am the only former sex worker at these things, and I am not even "out" about my career history. Still, i keep bringing this up.
    Unfortunately, I have not luck getting input from dancers in NJ about this, nor have I been able to get any input from dancers in Texas about the impact of this tax on their work.
    So please, please please, please reply to this post, expecially if you are from NJ or TX.
    Thanks a bunch!

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    Here's a thread that's floating around involving this same thing.

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    My explanation is in the link zxcire provided, but let me reiterate that this is a TERRIBLE idea.

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    Why not tax the medical professionals, resturants , the zoos, the NFL or WAL MART? Taxing strippers and adult oriented business is just as random. I take offense to stuff like this and think most others in this profession would too. It gives people who already stereotype us, more reason to do so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buffie06 View Post
    Why not tax the medical professionals, resturants , the zoos, the NFL or WAL MART? Taxing strippers and adult oriented business is just as random. I take offense to stuff like this and think most others in this profession would too. It gives people who already stereotype us, more reason to do so.
    Agreed.

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    You'd do much better and hit your target better by taxing the NFL to fund rape crisis programs, that's for damn sure. The NFL plays a bigger role in rape than strip clubs ever will!

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    crap, looking at the state legislature website, it looks like the damned thing was passed.

    50 million in projected revenues my ass. enforcement's going to be hard, since clubs can't charge the dancers enough to offset the cost and lots of clubs will hasten to claim they aren't the specific kind of 'sexually-oriented business' that needs to pony up the five bucks per customer.

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    I was the one who posted this initially. My counselor works with your group. PM'd you.

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    You'd do much better and hit your target better by taxing the NFL to fund rape crisis programs, that's for damn sure. The NFL plays a bigger role in rape than strip clubs ever will!
    Agreed that this is really a double whammy. First, it amounts to a hidden tax on strip club customers and dancers no matter how gov'ts attempt to package the tax/fee. Second, it reinforces the Hollywood Stereotype of 'stripping' as being part of the sex business ... with associated affects in other areas of gov't action (like family courts) as well as in public impression.

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    Taxing the adult industry would imply that we are responsible for sex crimes. We aren't.

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    ^^^ AGREED! This is a horrible idea. Any tax on clubs gets passed down to US. Why on earth would you be taxing WOMEN to pay for other women's abuse???? How awful! And taxing those in the adult entertainment industry, as previously stated, implies that we are also participating/encourage SEX CRIMES. That we perpetrate/perpetuate rape and sexual assault. This is arbitrary, untruthful, and random.

    Again, as said above, you'd get more $$$ and be much more on target if you targeted major-league sports teams.

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    wrong one.
    Last edited by wildwomen; 09-15-2007 at 07:27 PM. Reason: meant to be private

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