Saturday, April 26, 2003
 
Balancing the Budget on the...er, Backs of Porn Users

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Missouri state government, or certain portions therein, want to add an excise tax on porn and strippers, which a senator somberly, and regretfully, informs us is a growth industry in Missouri. Yeah, I am sure he regrets getting any more money to spend.

More troubling, though, is that the state wants to start seizing assets of outlaws more easily. Sure, it's drug dealers this week, but what happens when the state needs more money? Seizing cars from speeders, sorry, I mean those guilty of "excessive vehicle noise," to support a program to keep people from spreading pathogens on the state grape? A slippery slope's not a fallacy, folks, it's a description of government.

- posted by Brian J. @ 8:54 PM
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