A number of states, hungry for new revenue, want to get a cut of the action of the booming pornography industry. They are proposing taxes on pornography, strip clubs, and sex shops.
But the proposals may not pass legal muster. See โPorn Taxesโ Face First Amendment Issues.
Would you favor such taxes, reasoning that taxing an industry is a sure way to hurt it? Or does it bother you that the stateโand thus youโwould become complicit in the sex trade?