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ALBANY – Call it an un-cover charge.
A Brooklyn assemblyman introduced a bill yesterday that would require patrons to pay the state $10 every time they visit a strip club or topless joint.
Felix Ortiz, a Democrat, said the flesh fee could raise as much as $500 million for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, sexual abuse and child prostitution.
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“The bottom line is, we have to protect people who have been victimized by unscrupulous individuals, and we cannot continue, especially in this economy, to have government pay for everything,” Ortiz said.
I thought that two or three dimensional pornography was merely harmless fun between consenting adults, and that it had no societal or cultural effects beyond that. That’s how libs respond to conservatives and Christians when they contend that it leads to human trafficking, violence against women, the objectification of women and kiddie porn. All of a sudden, porn and strip joints do lead to these things, such that it needs a “sin tax” levied on it to mitigate the costs that governments incur to solve, stop and prosecute these things. Which is it, libs?
