The High Cost of Sin: Porn Tax?

[kstar]

Only in California - I love the last line! Ha!:

Porn Tax Considered As Solution To Budget Shortfall
Written by: Doug G. Ware
Email: dware@kutv2.com
Last Update: 12:26 pm

LOS ANGELES - California state lawmakers are considering an unusual idea to solve the state's huge budget shortfall: Tax pornography.

The idea was proposed by a state assemblyman, and would impose a 25 percent tax on the production and sales of pornographic videos -- the vast majority of which are made in southern California.

It is unknown, however, how seriously lawmakers will take the idea or how the porn business would deal with the new tax. It is likely, though, that porm-makers would simply pass the cost along to consumers by making pornographic materials more expensive.

However, many economists believe that pornography is an industry with inelastic demand -- meaning market conditions typically don't affect consumers' desire for the product. In other words, it is believed that most porn consumers would continue to buy regardless of how much it cost.

A potential downside to the tax proposal is that porn producers could leave California to manufacture and distribute videos in other states that don't impose the tax.

http://www.kutv.com/content/news/watercooler/story.aspx?content_id=7276089e-3b07-44e9-9ce4-2cd6e1c31b37

[TheMentat]

Originally Posted by kstarnes

Only in California - I love the last line! Ha!:



http://www.kutv.com/content/news/watercooler/story.aspx?content_id=7276089e-3b07-44e9-9ce4-2cd6e1c31b37

We in Vancouver would gladly take some of THAT movie production off the hands of Californians as well!

[pwd72s]

Please...Oregon has been Californicated enough.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

There won't be anything left in the S.F. valley if the porn producers leave.

[dipso]

They can film at my house.

[dshepp806]

Originally Posted by dipso

They can film at my house.

Funny as hell.. !!

[Mule]

Damn! I was just getting the UFA, United Fluffers of America, organized! I was about the be the Jimmy Hoffa of blow jobs!

[Por_sha911]

How many Pelicans would not have enough money to fix their cars if they had to pay a Porn Tax?

[Jim Bremner]

they need to figure out how to not spend our tax $$$$

we voted in the lottery to give more funds to the schools - they're not any better off.

they get 7.5% on every $1 of gas we buy. (not including the hwy tax that's on the fuel per gallon. gas is now 3+ times what it was 5 years ago. WHERE'S that $$$$

10 years ago house's where 1/3 of what they are today, yes we have prop 13 so if you bought your house and the value soars, that you can not be taxed out of it.
but we have many x the number of ncmanssions WHERE's the TAX $$$


and if it's going to illegal aliens, maybe we need to figure something out.