Is a $5 'Skin Tax' for Strip Clubs Fair or Foul?

The tax would be on the customers entering the establishment, not the girls entertaining.

The customers don't put it on their tax forms.

I'm sure they don't put it on their tax forms, but the story above states that the Illinois State Senator wants to have a "$5 tax for the entry of each customer admitted into a live adult entertainment facility." Hence they get taxed for just coming in the joint. If "Sin" Taxes are so bad, and now a new proposal for "Skin" Taxes are because these law makers are so disgusted with the "low morality" of these establishments, then why such high taxes on this type of behavior? It seems to me that the government is profiting quite well off of having these types of establishments around, they certainly generate quite a bit of revenue that the government quite generously spends. Sounds like, I'm disgusted with you, but I'll kindly take your money.

I've always wondered, the govenrment always gets dope dealers on "Income Tax Evasion". So, if they paid their taxes, would the govnerment be okay with them?

you've got a point. I don't care for strip joints, never been in one, BUT I also DESPISE stupid taxes as well. As far as drugs well, you know that controversy with the CIA...

Sure it's foul, but $5.00 is only a mega-fraction of what a hardcore strip club monger spends per visit. Depending on the club's rules, and how "accommodating" certain dancers are willing to be, the expenditures for a single visit can run well over the 1k mark, and that may NOT include hotel room costs for "off-campus" activities :).

Oh, the government would like to be able to...

Don't tax the tits!

NO taxes are "OK". Taxation is a form of economic slavery. How about a special $10,000 tax on strippers/prostitutes, + cigars & alcohol, BUT....only just for congress/senators?
Or better yet....a 50% tax on government bribes, I mean "campaign contributions"!!!
With those in place, we'd pay down the deficit in less than a year!

LOL!!! I'm for it. Gerald for President!!!

its there bodys give them the money or no boobs no ass and no dicks

Tax doesn't mean you pay the strippers. That money goes to the government.

oh should go to strippers

Read my lips...no new taxes..:P

STOP TAXING THE TITAYZ!

Sure, why not? Another industry that will be driven underground! They'll all become 'private' clubs or find some other way around the law. Don't most of these places already charge an entry fee to walk in the door?

Not to mention, once the problem is solved, they never stop the tax, because they get so used to the revenue stream.

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

~ Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006 CE)

Fair enough.
Taxes exist for every other "sin" , from drinking to smoking. Why the hell isn't this taxed already?

He really meant a White House *pocket* tax!

There Is No End to the taxes and fees and documents of approval, etc.. once these politicians feel they can get away with it.

Where are people's heads? They are either in the sand or up their asses! This kind of legislation is a direct violation of the Bill of Rights, as is prostitution. Our bodies belong to us and not the state. However, all that changed during the FDR Administration, when we were numbered and consequently became commercial chattel. Now we are ruled or overruled by commercial law, the Constitution notwithstanding.

it already cost to damm much to go in one.How about we just have an air tax and even the politician can pay

Politicians don't pay taxes. They are paid with taxes.

They pay taxes out of the tax money.

You mean they put some back into the pool from which it came. That's not the same as a productive person paying taxes where it goes from one pool to another. Try putting your money back in your bank account and calling it taxes.

Two things. Then how do you classify government contractors like Northrop Gruman, Lockheed Martin, etc. They receive their revenue from government contracts, which are paid by taxes.

Also, I was wondering what you think about having to report your tax refund as income the following year? That never ceases to amaze me. They take too much taxes from you in year "A", then you can't file for it until you cross this imaginary line called January 1st of the following year. They give you back the difference between what you actually owed and what you over payed in taxes (on money you made last year), then ask you to report it as new income!!! I'm totally baffled by this.

I would say they are doing the same as any politician or government bureaucrat.

I think they are stealing as much as people will put up with (which is a lot). What you are describing is double dipping. Since they didn't have the right to the first dip...

I should slightly revise what I said above. Instead of saying that you should put your money in your bank account and call it tax, I should have said, rob your neighbors at gunpoint, use the proceeds to live for the year and at the end of the year place a portion in your bank account...and then do it all again next year. At which point did you pay anyone?

Here's what I find baffling. Congress has a 1/10 approval rating. Fully 90% of the people don't like what they are doing. That's 535 people (.00017%) "forcing" 280,600,000 people (99.9998%) to surrender their labor and their volition to them (actually only 100 million surrender their labor). I put quotes on forcing because if people ever realize what nonsense this all is, it's over. 535 people cannot make 100,000,000 to 311,800,000 people do anything they don't want to do.

It's rediculous, first off strip clubs are already taxed for their liquor license, which is pretty much what the cover fee is their for and why the price of alcohol is so high. On top of that house fees for strippers alone is usually over $35, not including having to tip out the bouncers, the house mom, the dj... imagine what they'll be demanding once they tax nude entertainment as well. Plus most strippers don't want to go through the ridicule of being known as a stripper and work under false names, same as the patrons, and who's gonna be counting how many people walk through that door to determine just how much tax is owed? So to me it just sounds like another means for the club owner to rip you off.

Will Lisa Ann and Larry Flynt speak out against this or will they lay down like the b!+c#e$ that they are.

anything that does not go in the strippers G String is a TAX and is theft from these hard working girls

So, you mean the food and drinks the patrons buy is theft from the hard working girls too?

Why does this not surprise me. Your country sure has changed in the last 30 years.

Hope and Change, baby! Ohblowme should've been a Canadian.

Not bloody likely we have enough to contend with without having him up here. haha

LOL - well, after January 20th, 2013, he's going to have to go somewhere....... sure you guys don't want him? I mean, he is the smartest guy in the world, just ask him, he'll tell ya........

Maybe team him up with Al Gore (you know the inventor of the Internet lol) and they can do a traveling road show.

Talk about a dog-and-pony show! Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer!

Has nothing to do with Obama. This is proposed by a Illinois State Senator named
Toi Hutchinson. This applies only to Illinois, not the nation. Calm down. Everything ain't Obama's fault.