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If you can't get rid of it...Tax it
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Internet porn tax mooted In the interests of protecting children A DEMOCRATIC lawmaker is hoping that a 25 per cent tax on internet porn will suddenly stop kids looking at the stuff. The bill, expected to be introduced next week by Senator Blanche Lincoln, would see adult web sites faced with an extra tax. She told 9news.com that the extra cash from the tax will be used for law enforcement and for protecting children from Internet-related crimes. Called the Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005, the bill also proposes new rules for Web sites to verify they do business only with adults. It would compel sites to use specialized software to verify a customer's age. It will be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission. .................................................. .
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i see more and more sites going south soon jajaja. the wave has begun already.
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That pisses me off. TAHT is something I could see actually passing.
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But I thought Democrats were the good guys, and the Republicans were the evil on this planet?
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Nah, the only real difference between Dems and Reps is that the republicans want to kill off anything that might be fun while the democrats want to tax anything that might want to be fun.
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If the government was remotely smart they'd put a low tax on it, the way they do on tobacco, gasoline, alchohol, gambling, etc, and let porn profit and profit along with it. That's what they've done historically and it's worked out incredibly well for them.
25% is not remotely the same; that is a killer tax. It's an economic nuclear bomb that's poorly masquerading as a tax. Very very dumb for them. Possibly the last nail in the coffin for us. There comes a point where the pressure being applied (from VISA, DOJ, etc.) and the profit margin just are not worth the effort. At 25% tax, selling Hubbles to blue hairs has more profit and less headaches in it. |
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Drav do you know what % of cigerrete's prices are taxs? Same with alchohol and gas? I think that taxs esepcially on cigs are close to 50%+ ( especially when you calculate price raise companies had to add so they could pay of the huge settlements forced by politicans/trial attorneys)
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Mike, with cigs, and with states adding on their taxes on top of federal, yep, I would have to agree with you. If the tobacco companies didn't have the third world and other places without taxes to make up for it, they wouldn't be around. They still have outlets to offset it. Online porn doesn't have that.
Here's some irony. Being brick and mortar, they can go elsewhere. Online porn has the world for a market, yet (with US webmasters) it will be taxed by where the owner lives, the server is at, etc and won't have the same kind of option to seek out a better geographical economy in which to thrive. That is, Phillip Morris has only to build a new building in China and call it a new division, for instance, without leaving the US completely to get the local tax breaks. For a US webmaster or company, we can't do that. One would have to leave the US permanently to gain the same advantage. Definitely screwed up. |
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"When the federal government wants the public to stop doing or using something, a hefty tax—a so-called "sin tax"—is slapped on to discourage demand. Cigarettes, for example, have an 18.2 percent federal tax, while the federal gasoline tax is 11.5 percent. Hard liquor is taxed at 10.7 percent, and heavy firearms and ammunition have an 11 percent federal tax. A pistol or revolver has a 10 percent federal tax. Beer is taxed at 5 percent, a luxury vehicle at 3 percent. The Feds get 3 percent for your phone service. A ship cruise ticket is taxed 0.3 percent. No federal taxes at all are imposed on bus tickets or on rail tickets. Why does the federal government want people to stop flying when it stands to lose so much tax revenue?"
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And rememeber, the cig tax and others, crept up from something low and kept getting added on over a good period of time. |
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The taxes are much higher in Europe, and the industries under heavy taxes are still making money, since its the consumer that will end up paying for it. However there is no specific "porn" tax.
Also VAT in Europe is 13-25%, and still porn is being sold :-)... ofcourse the profit margins are a bit lower than in the US, which makes me belive that the affiliate model will hurt the most, if there was a specific "porn" tax - not sure that we can just rise prices with 25% (especially high priced monthly memberships) without it having a effect on subscription length, chargebacks etc. Now the AVS rule could be the real problem - German porn took a hit, when their politicians had the same idea.
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Ofcourse the affiliate model have already taken a severe beating... I have seen PPS on a "former" major sponsor program paying $18 per $1/trial, console free, x-sale free signup and $10 per $19.99/monthly, console free, x-sale free signup ... things that makes you go hmmmm....
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I hate liberals Cannot stand the Landrieu family – not one of them have ever had to get a real job, or create jobs for anyone else. The liberals are playing games to try and convince American people they are more family friendly – this is nothing but a ploy, and excuse to do what dems do best Tax and spend on stupid issues – wasting MONEY! This is the same party who wants abortions opened up for children without parental consent, the party FOR gay marriages, the party of bill Clinton, every degenerate Hollywood star. This is the party who wants to take God out of the pledge of Allegiance, Thing is they will probably get some egg headed republicans to go along with it because they don’t want to look like they are PRO-Porn. Hell if a republican would vote against it, the liberals would be saying they support kiddy porn. This Country is going to hell in a hand-basket. |
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Love it Mike! All your points have done nothing but show how insane, extreme and dangerous Conservatives are to this country!! |
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stop blaming the current administration for all the country's ills- this is un patriotic and un American!
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Apparently Serge you do no undstand English as wel as you thought. Please get some help translating the article so you can keep up with the rest of the class.
Drav, I hope your party does pass the 25% law. It won't effect me that much at all. I am retired. You on the other hand might end up having to take a few shifts at your old job. I bet you still have your funny hat and all. Remember , DING means fries are done. |
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spit on it every chance they have, The country is NOT "This Country is going to hell in a hand-basket.", despite some unpatriotoc Americans try to convince us otherwise. 2) as for understanding English - this is a typical responce of an individual who can't spell English for shit. I could take it from Heather back in 1997, she is a woman, but somebody who thinks he is a man ....shame - shame! 3) I also suggest you take English Grammar lessons, Apparently Serge you do no undstand English as wel as you thought. shoud be Apparently Serge you do noT understand English as well as you thought. You are the only person I personally know who makes misspells in 4 letter words....
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Serge my post was reflecting upon the article. Without the article there is no post.
See, it is easy to follow. Or should I draw a diagram for you? The country is going to hell. The Constitution is worthless. The Gov't can take your land and give it to someone else who wants to build a casino. The commerce clause is used to justify more seizing of power by the Federal Gov't. There are States who are trying to ourlaw smoking in cars. This goes beyond dem and rep, for the most part professional politicans are all the same. Professional politicans get their power by redistributing wealth. With the power of the purse then they can do whatever they want. Serge, maybe it's not reading comprehension that is your problem - it's your posting - you are too smart for me, you skip ahead to the end. Show dumb guys like me your thought processes.... and maybe we can get past your accent! The democrats are trying to ruin this country, and they are succeeding all to well. Serge where do we emigrate to next? Eastern Europe? |
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Serge stop trying to re-define my arguements. There was a time when this Country was at war, that all Americans came together and politics ended at the oceans edge. Neither you or I were around during these years....
Now we have nothing but one upsmanship, undermining of the President, our troops, and politicans giving aid and comfort to the enemy. We have "mainstream" politicans who make Tokeyo Rose seem like Jessica Simpson. |
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I see progress! Time to move more complicated words than 4 letter words: politicans is spelled politician and it's NOT ourlaw it's outlaw. You are doing well, don't get discouraged and keep on practicing. After you master the SPELLING, the next task at hand (after comprehension course is taken) is LOGIC. Your statesments contradict each other. Quote:
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where ever we go, my spelling in the language of the locale still be better than yours
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Serge, stop having your wife edit your posts!
I blame the spell check feature on word processors for spelling when I type. The bottom line is message board posting is not important for me to spell check. Sorry. |
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My wife NEVER does it! My posts don't have to get polished...it would be a waste of her polishing skills!
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yeah, tell the folks how you wanted to go UP 6 blocks and grab a taxi in Granada, while the map was showing the destination 4 blocks way DOWN
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I rest your case! P.S. the argument brought by my wife, who saw her being brought by the ears into the thread, and she gave her contribution, per your request.
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Serge, you did a bette job with directions when sleeping.
I don't want your wife invovled with out online debates, I want a chance of winning. I know when to cede the field. |
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so......let's move into more important categories than politics we can do NOTHING about... what are you drinking nowadays?
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I drank the 96 bottle of the 95 we had when you were in town.
The 96 was disapointing, could not hold a candle to the 95. |
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I glad we only got 1 bottle each and Chateau Gazin is now behind us. 95 was an excelelnt juice!
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I will be in the neighborhood of B-21 later this week, I will have to pick some up!
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