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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
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. |
I knew about the marijuana tax but that's not the same thing it was a tool to arrest but if porn actually had a sin tax they actually collected I still think they wont go after it. Its a special tax that means the community accepts it as a lawful enterprise and it takes alot of the gray away. Like I said before tell me an actual thing they tax thats not a trap and then they put people in jail for it? There are none.