About to goto the floor is a new proposed internet "porn tax" this will mean any website that has any adult images on it will be subject to a blanket tax of 25% of its income.
it seems that this is the next thing bush is doing in his War on porn. I quick search of google revieled a site with this text extract.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars are made each year on the "sales" of horrible things, images that most of us want to keep away not only from our children, but from our communities. We want to keep this material from finding its way into the very fabric of our society. Yet, there is an enormous appetite for this stuff - so much so that it’s obvious that the flow from producer to consumer cannot be controlled. Conservatives need to understand this. We have lost this war, but is there something positive that can come from this? Do we just "give up," or is there some way we can curtail the amount of porn being produced?
You bet there is, and here’s the answer: Tax the living daylights out of it! Tax every part of it. Tax the consumers who want to look at it. Tax the "actors" - mostly women, and some men - who are making money being "models" for these porn sites. Tax every network that allows this human sewage to flow through their switches, cables, phone lines - tax any entity that makes it easy for this material to go from camera lens to your living room where little Johnny can see it while you’re out at the grocery store.
its interesting to note that they start of by saying "there is an enormous appetite for this stuff "
well isnt it simple supply and demand? they are saying its filth and no one wants it? yet if no one wanted it , no one would buy it and if no one bought it , then no one would make it.
details of the proposed tax here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050722/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl
porn tax? humm what do you think?
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