Well I don't see any problem with taxing it was you would tax normal goods, but they definetly shouldn't increase the tax because it's "immoral" or "wrong" or whatever. That's your opinion and you can't make other people pay more because of it.
Poll: Pornography Tax
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Paying the tax assumes you pay for porn, why would you pay for something thats so easy get for free?
That's basically what it sounded like to me. "Let's see if we can tax this to the point that it shuts down the business since people opposed to it are so loudly voicing their opinion." Which is problematic when another group gets loud, can you tax whatever they protest out of business, too?Khell_Sennet said:
Its wrong for some obvious reasons.
But some not-so-obvious reasons?
Remember Obama wanting to make it so males/females have to get the same wage, if they are in the same job, doing the same thing. (Aka, women were making less money then men, even when they had more experience...
WEll, thats technically going to hurt the porn industry.
Its a well known fact, that women in porn, make roughly 10x that of what men make. So if they equalize it, men will either make what women make, or women will make what men make.
If they reduce pay, no ones going to want to make it anymore... If they increase guys pay, well they'll have to fire more of the guys so they don't go belly up... Of course, I have to wonder, How isn't porn, prostitution? And if someone were to hire a prostitute, why don't they say they are making a porno? At least hte cops couldn't touch them.
But some not-so-obvious reasons?
Remember Obama wanting to make it so males/females have to get the same wage, if they are in the same job, doing the same thing. (Aka, women were making less money then men, even when they had more experience...
WEll, thats technically going to hurt the porn industry.
Its a well known fact, that women in porn, make roughly 10x that of what men make. So if they equalize it, men will either make what women make, or women will make what men make.
If they reduce pay, no ones going to want to make it anymore... If they increase guys pay, well they'll have to fire more of the guys so they don't go belly up... Of course, I have to wonder, How isn't porn, prostitution? And if someone were to hire a prostitute, why don't they say they are making a porno? At least hte cops couldn't touch them.
And so the tax moneys would be given to the people who decided on the tax to buy porn for themselves.
Or at least s'what I think XD
Or at least s'what I think XD
Tax the perverts! My friend us so fucked up from hardcore porn that he can't get up from normal porn... and he's only 14! He is going to be REALLY fucked up when he grows up.
SuperFriendBFG said:
I was going to just sort of browse this topic, until I saw this quote which made me compelled to sound off. These days I really can't say I know anyone who admittedly pays for porn besides a few females. Most just hit torrent sites, or various other peer sharing programs. So taxing the people that actually do pay for it is counter productive in my opinion, since it will most likely cause them to go the free route with money being tight.I find it a bit disturbing that Government wants a bigger piece of that particular pie.
As for cigarettes, I have been hearing about proposals in various states of raising the tax another .72-.75 cents due to there not being enough money in the budget after bad investments. I really doubt anyone wants to ride to the aid of tobacco companies, but this getting ridiculous. If people want to smoke, let them! Politicians should not use their habit as a way to clean up their mistakes. What really makes it even more irritating is that subjective non-smokers seem to want to believe they are doing smokers a favor by robbing their money. It's gotten to the point where they are bending the results of smoking studies just as bad as tobacco companies did back in the 50s-60s, and with the vast majority of our fellow Americans being as gullible as Butters from South Park, the BS gets treated as facts. Now that smokers are in the minority, they are being treated as such. I have never heard a smoker be asked to be treated with special accommodation,so why the hell should non-smokers be treated as superior beings?
I am from the US and get pissed off every time I hear about a new tax. This colony succeeded from England because of public outrage on excess taxes and yet now not only are our wages and earnings taxed but also all of the items we buy are taxed as well (except maybe groceries depending where you live). Not only that but we are taxed on the land we own, the houses we live in, and even when we die (estate tax). This shit is getting out of hand and having to pay excess luxury taxes on items deemed immoral on unnecessary is on the fringe of going too far (cigarettes, alcohol, pornography, fire arms etc.). These taxes don?t limit or restrict the use of these items; they just piss people off and are a good guise to make a lot of money. The biggest problem in my mind is that the government is forgetting that they are here to serve the people and only as long as they serve the people. If enough people get mad then they can elicit change (all of this from a conservative, funny huh? Oh well I blame the liberals, lol). This is going to sound totally socialist of me but I am in favor of the new flat tax system people are talking about where the only tax is 23 cents to the dollar on any and all items you purchase. Not only would this eliminate the need for the IRS altogether but would also make it so that every one from CEO executives to prostitutes and drug dealers are all paying taxes. Also, if you do the math its, the flat rate tax is less than we are currently paying in taxes.
I understand the scale of that dilemma (and genuinely I am sympathetic) but is that the problem of the ?perverts? (i.e. end user)? I ask whether the bigger problem might not come from a lack of parenting. I could even see blaming the channels through which a minor might get hardcore pornography (friends whose parents fail to supervise their children properly or maybe the ease of access to adult material on the internet). On the very fringe of discussion I could see maybe even blaming the porn industry it self (although with better supervision I still maintain that children should not be able to acquire pornography). So I ask, how is it that the responsible adults who pay for pornography and enjoy it in the privacy of their homes should have to be taxed because of your friends unhealthy addiction? Do you think it would prevent other children from being able to acquire it in the future?letsnoobtehpwns said:
Genius. They would make so much money. Not like they need anymore but just to get out of the recession. Then stop the tax.
Hell yea. Right on brother.Wanderer1911 said:
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