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Friday, April 21, 2017

GOP Wants To Tax Porn



The GOP Big Brother Sex Police
God Bless Freedom in all its cup sizes.


EDITOR  -  So-called "small government" Republican legislatures around the nation are marching down the Taliban road and are pushing taxes and other attacks on Internet porn. Naturally the political hacks will anoint themselves as "Gods" to decide what is or is not porn.


(3TV/CBS 5) -  Lawmakers in about a dozen states are considering a bill that would block pornography from all new phones and computers unless consumers pay up.
Backers of the porn tax plan to introduce it on the federal level this month.
State Rep. Kelly Townsend (R-Mesa) considered sponsoring a version of the bill in Arizona, but the measure was not introduced this session, her staff confirmed.
Supporters say porn is a public health problem and argue that taxing it would help cut down on a range of issues, including sex trafficking.
The Human Trafficking Prevention Act would require that all new internet-connected devices be equipped with a porn filter. Consumers who want to unlock the filter would have to pay a one-time fee of $20 on each device.
Republicans are frightened by boobs.
Read More:
GOP to sell your Porn internet search history
and
Idiot GOP Declares Porn a 'Public Health Crisis'

The tax would be used to fund groups that fight human trafficking, domestic violence, sexual assault and other issues, according to boilerplate language from the act's supporters.
“What we know about pornography is that it's addictive. It actually affects the brain,” said Kathleen Winn of the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network.
“Like any drug, like an addiction, you need more and more and more of it to get the same reaction from it as the first time you saw it. So yes, I absolutely believe pornography is contributing to the growing criminal enterprise of sex trafficking.”
Winn said she supports the legislation as another tool to combat trafficking, but critics say the bill would lead to a massive censorship apparatus.
Others, like Tempe-based attorney Russ Richelsoph, question the constitutionality of such a measure.
“While I'm not advocating pornography, it is a form of speech. It is protected by the First Amendment, and it is a problem if they're trying to create a tax to prevent people from engaging in that form of speech,” he said.
Richelsoph, a firearms enthusiast, said the legislation could open the door to taxes on other kinds of speech.
“If this passes First Amendment muster, what would prevent states that are not friendly to firearms from doing the same thing with regards to websites that have content about firearms?” he said.
Winn sees it differently.
“We have taxes on cigarettes. We have taxes on alcohol. We have taxes on any product that you go and buy. This is a product,” she argued.
A number of state legislatures including South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Texas are currently considering versions of the Human Trafficking Prevention Act. Lawmakers in North Dakota and Wyoming rejected the measure.
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Porn Star Sunny Leone
It fascinates me how Republicans are frightened to death of
beautiful women be they in the porn industry or not.
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We here at The Federalist are not frightened by beautiful women
and celebrate their lovely forms every week
in our Saturday Sultress series.

Porn or not porn. That is the question.

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2 comments:

Phil said...

If these stupid sonsabitches spent half as much time taking care of the actual business they were elected into office to fix as they do virtue signaling, getting reelected and naming post offices, this country wouldn't be the shit hole they have let it become.

Anonymous said...

How things will be more stupid going to be ?