Rep. Proposes $5 Strip Club Tax

Above is Bucks County State Rep. Paul Clymer (click to enlarge for freakishly large version). The above dude wants to tax all strip club patrons $5 because he thinks they’re going to go out and rape people. “These clubs bring the problems of prostitution, drug and alcohol abuse and questionable characters,” said Clymer. “They have no redeeming value for communities.” Whee!

Also big on questionable characters: Libraries. (Really!) The money would go to fund the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape. Unfortunately for them, my guess is their lobbyists aren’t quite as good as the lobbyists for strip clubs, and so this will fail. Texas had a similar law that was struck down as unconstitutional, but Clymer says his law is better and constitutional.

Oh, yeah, and this idea is called a “pole tax.” Ha ha, just a little throwback line to the time when blacks, poor people and questionable characters were prevented from voting by rich politicians.

Clymer tax would hit strip clubs [Bucks County Courier Times]

Pa. Sen. Probably Hates Porn, Too

Hmm, when Chuck Ramsey does his little crime report thingy, I can safely assume it will not suggest closing down all of Philadelphia’s strip clubs. Strippers — or “heroes,” as I like to call them — are most certainly blameless in the city’s murder epidemic, except maybe for that shooting at ex-Allen Iverson hangout Club Wizzards last year.

But, out in Western Pennsylvania, Republican State Senator Jane Oriethinks strip clubs are just plain evil or something and wants to tax them more, because the GOP is the party of low taxes and personal choice.

“What I’m trying to do is have the state of Pennsylvania conduct the same study [as Texas, which just instituted a $5 pole (ho ho!) tax], to look at the adult entertainment industry, and the secondary effects it has, for example, with child abuse, and with domestic violence, with mental health issues.”

Mental health issues? There’s nothing more depressing than a pair of giant fake tits in your face.

Lawmaker Lobbys For Study on Pa. Strip Clubs [KYW 1060]