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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsTax the Porn!
By Ed Brayton
A California legislator has proposed a 25% tax on pornography, to be used to establish an "Adult Entertainment Venue Impact Fund" to be used to "to ameliorate the secondary effects of adult entertainment and adult entertainment venues." There's just one problem: it's unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court ruling in Arkansas Writer's Project v Ragland, which dealt with an Arkansas law that taxed "general interest" publications but exempted religious, sports and other types of publications, clearly stated that differential taxation based on the content of a publication is a violation of the first amendment:
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