Posted On: March 27, 2010 by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

Strip Club Tax

The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether to strip away a $5 entrance tax to watch strippers in Texas.

Get it? Strip away? You don't like it? Well, I stole it from someone else anyway.

This pole tax - another dumb play on words I did not originate - requires strip clubs in Texas pay a $5 entrance fee. Judges questioned whether strip bar can be singled out for higher taxes. To date, the tax has brought in over $13.6 million. Good money for a state - like every other - that is cash strapped.

I really could not care less about this issue. If is is unconstitutional, it seems pretty harmless. Isn't a tax on alcohol the same thing?

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