Aren’t Pole Taxes Illegal? #
January 8th, 2008 | In Worth Discussing
The answer is no. Poll taxes were abolished by the 24th Amendment. Pole taxes remain legal. And Texas now has one.
THERE is a new price to be paid for looking at naked women in Texas. On January 1st the state’s strip clubs began imposing a $5 surcharge for each visitor. The “pole tax,” as it is commonly called, is expected to bring the state an additional $40m in revenue each year. Most of the proceeds will go to programmes that support victims of sexual assault.
So I want to know, is this good government or and insane idea from the Texas’s legislature?
I think an important point, which the article makes, is that “the tax implies an unfair link between club patronage and sexual violence, though no evidence to support this has been presented.” If there’s something wrong with the tax, I’m pretty sure that’s what it is.