Taxing Porn?

A new tax is under consideration at the State Capitol, and the lawmaker behind the idea believes the public will be too embarrassed to put up a fight. The proposed tax is on pornography and adult entertainment.

When it comes to adult entertainment, exotic dancing, few want it in their neighborhoods. Dennis and Teresa Wigner live three blocks away from a stretch of Auburn Boulevard- peppered with strip bars and adult entertainment as it runs through the Foothill Farms area. They call adult entertainment a disease.

"If they weren't in this neighborhood, it would bring up the value of the neighborhood a little bit more."

But as much as the Wigners disapprove of adult entertainment and bookstores around the corner, they also don't like the idea of an 8 percent state tax on just about anything rated "X."

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:shrug:

and fuck the Wigners and their property values. They probably moved there after the stores brought the values down, and now they're campaigning against them as some sort of sick investment strategy.

A lot of jobs and tax revenue already comes from the adult industry in California. The state al;ready makes plenty of money off of this industry from sales taxes and business taxes.

They will fight it, and they will defeat it.