We need to increase taxes on cigarettes, beer, and porno.

[steelmania75]

In rough economic times like these a lot of people will try to find relief in booze, Porn, and cigarettes. So why don't we increase taxes on those subjects?

[jschurchin]

1. This idea is gonna

go over big. Good luck with it.:toast:

[TwilightGardener]

2. I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties, aren't ya?

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. Why leave out churches?

There's tons of money there to be had.

[Ohio Joe]

8. Plus, I suspect as many turn to church as vice in bad times - nt

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. NOT MY PORN...O

oh wait, I mean, beer...


sP

[jmg257]

5. Cigarettes/cigars are already going up to pay for SCHIP; need new vices to target.

[jpgray]

6. Because regressive taxation is ostensibly not what we're about?

[Sydnie]

7. No more sin taxes

Don't those of us that may have strayed occasionally pay enough already? :)

[SCantiGOP]

9. one question

Just who do you propose to authorize to determine what is and isn't pornography? I can show you a lot of people that consider HBO or R rated movies to be obscene. Very stupid and very unconstitutional idea.

[notadmblnd]

10. Te cigarette tax was just increased.

How bout we increase the tax on fast food, junk food and the movies?

[Earth_First]

11. You owe the jar a quarter...

Stupid idea tax.

Just sayin'

[bobbert]

12. The way you put it in your OP, you just want to tax the poor & depressed

[Atman]

13. Not until you pry my cold, well-lubed fingers from my...

...uh...never mind.

:hi:

.

[radfringe]

14. two birds with one stone

separate "bonuses" or 'retention awards' for people earning more than $xxx,xxx,xxx per year from regular income, tax the bonuses at a higher rate

aside from causing NOPer heads to explode - it would generate more revenue, and discourage handing out TARP money like it was candy

[madmom]

22. When my So, who is retired from one of the Big3, ever got a "bonus" ie

christmas or suggestion award,profit share, performance bonus etc. it was ALWAYS taxed at a higher rate.Anything he got other than the hourly wage was taxed at a higher rate.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. How do you single out porn from other media in order to tax it?

[Occam Bandage]

38. "Does it give me a boner?"

[Dappleganger]

16. Legalize weed and prostitution...

then tax the shit out of that as well.

BTW, I'm FOR both!

[ZombieHorde]

46. Good idea. nt

[rrneck]

17. The biggest

sin the world faces today is the sin of overconsumption.

Tax the sins of the rich. Then eat them.

[FudaFuda]

18. And Birkenstocks!

I hate sandals. Tax 'em.

[Earth_First]

19. What a Crock! (tm) n/t

[FudaFuda]

27. b/c I see no more sense in 'sin tax' than a shoe tax.

Just trying to point out the hypocrisy of 'sin taxes.' To me, there is nothing special about consuming these products that would merit additional taxation above the usual sales tax applicable to all consumer goods. Of course in the real world that's now how it works, but why? What's the justification for singling out these items? If its an alleged public health cost, then lets tax hang gliding and roller skates too.

alcohol, tobacco, and porn are just easy targets b/c the 'moral majority' will go along with it. that's a weak basis for singling out certain products for additional taxes.

BTW I don't smoke, consume very little alcohol, and you'd have to be an idiot to pay for porn these days.

[taterguy]

33. At least that won't effect people that have to work for a living

:yourock:

[NightWatcher]

20. if the taxes get to high it will foster a black market (and crime) for these items

see hyjacked shipments of cigs and booze

[SCantiGOP]

26. already happens

There is a lucrative market in bootlegged cigarettes, brought from Southern states with very low tobacco costs and sold in New York and other places where they are heavily taxed. A pack of cigarettes has $2.50 more in taxes in NJ than in SC, so that almost doubles the price.

[Ioo]

21. Also I want a WHORE Tex too, and a TAX on G-Strings!

[RB TexLa]

23. Some lawmakers here wanted a $5 tax on entering a strip club for education. Tits for Tots.

[durablend]

24. Just cut to the chase...

TAX ON SEX

You do it--YOU PAY

[jaksavage]

25. Tax corn not porn

[TlalocW]

28. What about... "Thingy?"

Otherwise, we could always tax all foreigners living abroad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmgcylAxjfY

Takes a while to get to the actual sketch around 1:40ish.

TlalocW

[TheMightyFavog]

42. I say tax all people who stand in water.

$1 per inch they stand in, although drowning yourself would be free.

[TimesSquareCowboy]

29. There's plenty of free porn on the internet....so I'm told.

[sinkingfeeling]

30. Today, Arkansas added a $.56 per pack tax to cigarettes and the federal $.62 a pack tax kicks in

April 1. How about taxing something else for a while?

[LynneSin]

31. and fast food too

might as well hit it all

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. only some brands of beer (the brands I don't like)

[Sebastian Doyle]

39. Raise taxes on Bud Miller and Coors

And all the other mass produced pisswater that barely qualifies as "beer".

But not the microbrews, goddamn it. :beer:

[crimsonblue]

34. we already raised taxes on tobacco.

porn is very hard to tax because so much of it is available for free online.

in tough times, higher prices on beer means people will drink cheaper beer. Hence, the resurgance in Schlitz and Hamm's.

[Fireweed247]

35. how about an extra tax on MEAT!

:popcorn:

[iamthebandfanman]

36. ummm some states already are?

maybe we should legalise marijuana so we can tax that too...

nobody seems very intereted in that idea tho besides some people on DU and half of the people in the united states.

[Occam Bandage]

37. Wait, people pay for porn? Sure, tax those dumbasses.

[Warren DeMontague]

40. Legalize & Tax Marijuana, first. nt

[RebelOne]

41. Taxes are already going to go up in April on cigarettes here in Georgia. n/t

[lame54]

43. There goes my weekend

[Profprileasn]

44. They are extras anyway...

and use it to help fund healthcare. Tobacco and alcohol plus fast food tend to contribute so much to one needing healthcare, might as well help pay for healthcare. I don't see the point in taxing porn.

[taterguy]

48. What gives you the right to decide what an "extra" is?

[ZombieHorde]

45. We need an infinite tax on country music. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

47. A lot of Democrats would hate that.