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Originally Posted by tony404
I think you are wrong. if there was a fed porn tax that would stop and there would be a clear law of what you could and couldnt do. They are not going to arrest revenue. Name something they tax and still put people in jail for.
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Porn, as it is now is taxed just like any other business and they put people in jail for it sometimes. Even if they added a special "sin tax" for porn that does not mean they couldn't simultaneously prosecute selective individuals that they deemed were stepping over the vague and amorphous line that is obscenity. You assume that the porn tax has to come along with a governmental stamp of approval. That is not necessarily true.
PS- Many US state governments requires drug dealers to pay a marijuana stamp tax for their narcotics trafficking businesses, yet that does not prevent the same states from prosecuting drug dealers. (
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6670). They don't really expect a narcotics trafficker to pay, they just use it as another tool to throw the book at the dealers when they catch them.