Additional $5.00 to go to Gentlemen Club (Houston, Dallas: purchase, taxi, property tax)

[imaterry78259]

I just want to know what the Texas legislator will come up next to tax the citizens and the businesses of Texas. Will there be a fee to go into Starbucks or any coffee shop or a additonal fee to hear live music or an additional fee to go through the drive through at fast food restaurants. I bet they go after bars next or maybe the grocery store. Then the funds will be diverted to education and they will have to raise our property tax to make up for the defecit.

The moral of the story is there a demand for male strippers over 40

[Trainwreck20]

'Sin' taxes are nothing new...look at the taxes on cigs and alcohol. Usually tied to addiction, imho, rather than sin. Also, relatively small amount of people affected by strip club tax, so won't hurt with the voters.....

[southeasttexas]

This fee will NEVER hit me, since I never step foot in one of those clubs. A much better choice, if the state gov't. wanted to fund abused women causes, would be to tax every purchase of Hip-Hop or Gangsta' rap, say, another $2 per album. This was suggested on Houston talk radio and makes alot of sense, since Hip-Hop and Gangsta' rap glorifies abusing and degrading women. The names they call women clearly illustrates this.

[car957]

The t___ty tax is nothing more than the Legislature and Governor Pretty Hair invoking there morality. The lawsuits have already started and it will be interesting to see the outcome. If they are so concerned over the abuse of women they should beef up the laws regarding these criminal violations and provide safe havens for abused women and there children.

I agree with SE Texas in that I never go to those clubs and to tax rap music. However, some of the country music from the 1950s-1970s also degraded women. I can recall a couple of Conway Twitty songs that irritated the heck out of my mom and she was correct in being upset over the lyrics.

[southeasttexas]

I see the point. l also believe, though, far and away Hip-Hop and Gangsta' rap are easily the #1 offenders.

[JD59]

DALLAS -- Texas, where strip clubs have given rise to Anna Nicole Smith and many other less-generously endowed performers, is about to make it more expensive to watch a little bump and grind.

In what some have dubbed the "pole tax," the Lone Star State will require its 150 or so strip clubs to collect a $5-per-customer levy, with most of the proceeds going to help rape victims. The tax goes into effect on New Year's Day.

http://www.ksat.com/news/14908589/detail.html (broken link)

[wehotex]

[quote=imaterry78259;2298762]I just want to know what the Texas legislator will come up next to tax the citizens and the businesses of Texas. Will there be a fee to go into Starbucks or any coffee shop or a additonal fee to hear live music or an additional fee to go through the drive through at fast food restaurants. I bet they go after bars next or maybe the grocery store. Then the funds will be diverted to education and they will have to raise our property tax to make up for the defecit.

The moral of the story is there a demand for male strippers over 40[/QUOTE

you are so right. i don't go to these places, but i resent these holier-than-thou legislators abusing their powers to punish those whom they deem to be morally inferior. the same goes for the many taxes that they impose on alcoholic beverages. in calif, that pompous actor rob reiner lobbied the state legislators to impose a 50 cents per package tax on cigarettes to fund a new state headstart program. i don't smoke, but abhor the imposition of new taxes on innocent taxpayers. man, before long, they'll be taxing you to **** and poop.

[nativeDallasite]

Big fat who cares.

[houstoner]

Originally Posted by John1960

DALLAS -- Texas, where strip clubs have given rise to Anna Nicole Smith and many other less-generously endowed performers, is about to make it more expensive to watch a little bump and grind.

In what some have dubbed the "pole tax," the Lone Star State will require its 150 or so strip clubs to collect a $5-per-customer levy, with most of the proceeds going to help rape victims. The tax goes into effect on New Year's Day.

http://www.ksat.com/news/14908589/detail.html (broken link)

150? Is that all?? At least 100 of those must be in Houston.

[car957]

Originally Posted by nativeDallasite

Big fat who cares.

I do when the Legislature continues on its path of adding taxes because it feels good. These same turds didn't have the balls to provide adequate funding and oversight of the Texas Youth Commission. I will be amazed if the funds actually are used as they are intended.