This Bill Would Require You to Pay a Porn Tax

[Guy]

What a joke! Any fool would know that this is unconstitutional.
http://health.usnews.com/wellness/h...rn-tax-would-fight-human-trafficking-epidemic

 

[EspiKvlt]

The real joke is them trying to connect this to sex trafficking despite that making absolutely no sense whatsoever.

 

[Guy]

The real joke is them trying to connect this to sex trafficking despite that making absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Its just them wanting to force their religious beliefs onto others.

 

[heybarkeep]

What a joke! Any fool would know that this is unconstitutional.
http://health.usnews.com/wellness/h...rn-tax-would-fight-human-trafficking-epidemic

There's a bill out there that might initially irk people across the country, but could be a boon for curbing what President Donald Trump once called an "epidemic." It's called the Human Trafficking Prevention Act and it proposes a tax on porn – and lawmakers from approximately a dozen states are mulling it over.

If passed, consumers would have to pay a single $20 tax to access pornography on any new computer or phone. States like South Carolina, Georgia and Texas are looking into variants of the bill, while North Dakota and Wyoming, for instance, have squashed it.

Advocates contend porn is a public health issue. In their minds, taxing it could help curb sex trafficking, for example. According to the act's website,"The temptation to hire a prostitute to deal with one’s emotional challenges will be reduced tremendously by this act."

"What we know about pornography is that it's addictive. It actually affects the brain," Kathleen Winn of the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network told 3TV/CBS 5. "Like any drug, like an addiction, you need more and more and more of it to get the same reaction from it as the first time you saw it. So yes, I absolutely believe pornography is contributing to the growing criminal enterprise of sex trafficking."

Trump has said he would fight human trafficking, which he called an "epidemic." In the U.S. alone, the National Human Trafficking Hotline learned of 22,191 sex trafficking cases since 2007, according to Polaris, a nonprofit that works to combat human trafficking. The International Labor Organization approximates 4.5 million people are stuck in "forced sexual exploitation" across the world.

The money from the proposed tax would go to organizations opposing human trafficking, sexual assault and domestic violence, reports 3TV/CBS 5. Those in favor of the bill want to push it federally soon.

But is the act constitutional?

Not according to Russ Richelsoph, an Arizona attorney. "While I'm not advocating pornography, it is a form of speech. It is protected by the First Amendment, and it is a problem if they're trying to create a tax to prevent people from engaging in that form of speech," he told 3TV/CBS 5.

While pornography has historically been taboo, it's not always easy to define. As the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once famously said: "I know it when I see it."

I can't think of a much better cause that could desperately use the money but not like this Trump, sorry.

 

[justjoinedtopost]

http://humantraffickingpreventionact.com/

Went to the bill's website, did a bit of reading. I can find things to object to and disagree with all day long. Some of them absolutely hideous imo. Not like it matters. Propaganda about how to deal with the sex problem. One thing that is clear. If you believe in boundaries with regards to pornography, on the internet there are no meaningful ones.

 

[Osmia]

Interesting profile of the guy behind this effort. A very troubled person; it's not surprising that such a person would be behind this.

These "Won't somebody please think of the _______?" crusades are especially maddening because Congress barely has the institutional bandwidth to take care of the basics, like keeping the federal government from shutting down, let alone things to move the country forward, such as infrastructure spending or real health care reform.

 

[justjoinedtopost]

Interesting profile of the guy behind this effort. A very troubled person; it's not surprising that such a person would be behind this.

These "Won't somebody please think of the _______?" crusades are especially maddening because Congress barely has the institutional bandwidth to take care of the basics, like keeping the federal government from shutting down, let alone things to move the country forward, such as infrastructure spending or real health care reform.

"Sevier claims that the Human Trafficking Prevention Act was hatched in part due to the horrors he saw as a volunteer in Asian countries, where he was “physically fighting human trafficking” as a rescue worker with an organization called Orphan Secure.”
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He said the often fruitless missions led him to try to create legislation back home."

How noble.

 

[SuzySirenXO]

Its just them wanting to force their religious beliefs onto others.

Are you religious?

 

[EspiKvlt]

Are you religious?

I rated your post funny because this was such a Guy question to ask, but you asked it to him.

 

[yummybrownfox]

Are you religious?

Or is his family religious?

 

[Cal_blue]

So paying 20 dollars tax will prevent child trafficking. ......yeah