Yes, it is true.
There is a bill floating around the Washington State Legislaturethat will slap an 18.5% tax on pornography sales.
Basically, any guy, no matter which team you swing for, will be paying a special tax that 98% of women don’t won’t be paying.
To be honest, that is really my only reservation about this idea. I dont’ care what they want to slap a tax on it. If I don’t want to pay the tax, I won’t buy it (except on the internet where the tax won’t apply).
However, when it is this targeted towards just one gender, I start to want to question things.
Things like, does this just count towards videos and magazines and books and such?
If it will it also count towards dildos, buttplugs, wangdangdoodles and the like, then my objection is moot, but the bill doesn’t mention those. And if it does apply to them, I want someone on the floor of the House to be made to actually read the item’s names into the official record for posterity.
I read Nicole Brodeur’s column this morning and she’s going through a local sex shop and adding the tax to everything with a pricetag. But she’s the ditziest of the ditzes, so I’m not about to trust her reading of the bill.
And for that matter, if it is on everything in the store, are they just targeting sex shops? Because if so, won’t folks just save themselves some money by buying their KY at the drug store?
Anyone who wants to wade into the bill and see what they can see is welcome. Leave your assumptions in the comments
I’m just pondering what a “wangdangdoodle” is…
“wangdangdoodles” Ha!
On a serious note, this just goes to show how out of touch the average politician is with the real world. Someone should show them Google Image Search with the safety settings turned off.
Just another example of the politicians fucking us up the ass (and, NO, I’ve never done it, but I’m quite sure that I wouldn’t enjoy it despite the lack of certain knowledge).
FYI, a Wangdangdoodle does the thing that she (my she, his she, your she) really likes.
But, with the Internet, there really is no need to even pay for pornography…
“Just another example of the politicians fucking us up the ass ”
hmm, by that definition the tax should apply to everything congress produces.
So this bill is an attempt to leverage an 18.5% federal tax on everything?
Would this apply to romance novels? Those are sorta chick porn, aren’t they?