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" SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - A California bill proposing a 25 percent tax on revenues from adult entertainment would do little to ease the state's budget shortfall and would cost the state money by encouraging its pornography industry to move, opponents said on Monday as lawmakers reviewed the bill. The legislation would especially hurt the economy of the San Fernando Valley, the Hollywood of pornographic filmmaking, said opponents, who included several dancers and other adult entertainment performers and employees at a hearing on the bill in the state capital, Sacramento."

http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN1232562620080512

Could make hobbies just a smidge more expensive

5/20/2008 2:10:08 PM

i wish they taxed it more

5/20/2008 2:11:21 PM

LONG LIVE THE INTERNET

5/20/2008 2:12:15 PM

That industry brings in how much money and they want to force it to leave the area? wow

5/20/2008 2:13:45 PM

Lemme check the math.

25% times 0 =.....

yep, I'm good.

5/20/2008 2:20:54 PM

same thing they did to yachts, they put a big tax on them, rich folk just didn't buy them in this country anymore.

5/20/2008 2:36:11 PM

Do you really think they give a shit that the porn industry leaves the area? they don't tax porn anyways. making them leave the area, the worst that can happen, is like...

oh noes... we just lost a business that doesn't generate any revenue for us in sales tax.

5/20/2008 2:42:54 PM

brings money to the area which is spent in the area. also, hardcopies are taxed. they dont care whats on the dvd, its still taxed. internet, maybe not, but still the money thing.

5/20/2008 2:48:08 PM

^^I'm not sure if they directly tax the porn, itself, however, the side economic benefits of having those high money-making, tax-paying individuals living in California will be lost. There is going to be an impact, even if it isn't direct.
Although it wouldn't bother me, I get all my porn from Japan.

[Edited on May 20, 2008 at 2:49 PM. Reason : This topic's popular!]

5/20/2008 2:48:29 PM

First they came for the smokers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a smoker.

Then they came for the porn industry?

5/20/2008 2:48:31 PM

and you didnt speak out cause you are not a porn actress?

5/20/2008 2:52:15 PM

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" Former porn actress Shelley Lubben spoke in favor of Calderon's bill, detailing to lawmakers her history of prostitution, drug abuse and sexually transmitted disease while in the industry. "I really don't think the state understands the problem," Lubben said. "It literally took me eight years to recover.""

5/20/2008 3:39:55 PM

25%. that's it? make it 50% tax

5/20/2008 3:41:46 PM

Quote :

"Do you really think they give a shit that the porn industry leaves the area? they don't tax porn anyways. making them leave the area, the worst that can happen, is like... oh noes... we just lost a business that doesn't generate any revenue for us in sales tax."

Dont be an idiot. While they might not be paying a majority in sales tax, they do pay salaries, SS, medicare, unemployment, coorporate taxes, utilities, etc...

5/20/2008 4:43:08 PM

the only thing in porn that should be taxed is dat azz

5/20/2008 4:43:56 PM

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" Former porn actress Shelley Lubben spoke in favor of Calderon's bill, detailing to lawmakers her history of prostitution, drug abuse and sexually transmitted disease while in the industry. "I really don't think the state understands the problem," Lubben said. "It literally took me eight years to recover. And my left eye is still lazy.""

[Edited on May 20, 2008 at 4:47 PM. Reason : a]

5/20/2008 4:47:38 PM

^^ shit, you know about economics! except you failed. EVERYONE pays income tax, medicare, etc.

5/20/2008 4:51:20 PM

yes. and the porn stars are fucking rich. so they pay MORE income tax than your average scum

5/20/2008 4:56:02 PM

Quote :

"EVERYONE pays income tax, medicare, etc. "

You must be very young or naive.

Not everyone pays these fyi. But for whatever their legal employee does pay, the business has to match some of thier taxes(SS, Medicare). So losing that industry will hurt that area financially simply bc they dont agree with it. Also the business or coorporation will have to pay coorporate taxes as well.

5/20/2008 5:05:36 PM

guess I'll just make my own

5/20/2008 8:27:11 PM

Quote :

"i wish they taxed it more"

5/20/2008 8:30:10 PM

last porn i was in was paid cash, and thats not reportable income kids

5/20/2008 9:23:01 PM

how do you tax something that is free?

5/20/2008 9:26:05 PM

tax on anal lube? no one wants a dry ass fuck

5/20/2008 9:34:40 PM

We'll let the free market decide that.

5/20/2008 9:35:19 PM

^^ ouch!

5/20/2008 9:35:53 PM

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


i can smoke a cig on that one i think

5/20/2008 9:37:57 PM