Missouri To Adult Businesses: Get Lost

[mongo]

Would have posted in LBN if I had seen this earlier.

Missouri To Adult Businesses: Get Lost
By: Mark Kernes
Posted: 5:00 am PST 2-14-2005

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo - Want to rent an adult video, visit a dance club, hire an escort – no sex need be involved – or rent a room at a motel that offers in-room adult movies in Missouri? Get ready to pay a five-buck tax every time you walk through the door. And the owners of any of those kinds of establishments or services can get ready to fork over a 20-percent gross receipt – not gross profits, but gross receipts – tax, all of which is supposed to go into the "State Schools Money Fund."

It's all part of Senate Bill 32, introduced by Sen. Matt Bartle on Dec. 1, 2004, and amended in early February to clean up a bit of the language – but none of the problems.

"This bill will affect and probably shut down about a thousand Missouri businesses, and that's the objective; he said that's his purpose," warned Dick Snow, an adult retailer and founding member of the Missouri Association of Club Executives (ACE). "It will have a tremendous negative economic impact on the state, and that has gotten some traction in the Republican part of our legislature. The tax part of the bill and the fact that it eliminates these jobs and takes away the livelihood from about 10,000 people has dawned on many of the Republican legislators, particularly the moderate ones that are not really happy about government regulation and bad taxes."

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freakin' fascists! Nice to see the American Taliban is doing soooo well.

[BiggJawn]

1. Hang an ammendment on it....

...requiring Churches to disclose their finances and see how far it goes then....

[Blue_State_Elitist]

2. Exactly