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Texas Judge Voids Strip-Club Tax
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Texas lawmakers last year imposed a $5-per-patron fee on strip joints to raise more than $40 million annually for anti-sexual-assault programs and healthcare for the uninsured. The fee, which took effect Jan. 1, infuriated the owners of Texas' 162 strip clubs, who said politicians were cynically taxing a population they knew would not fight back…. On March 28, however, Texas strip club devotees found a powerful ally: An Austin judge declared the pole tax unconstitutional, saying it infringed on expression protected by the 1st Amendment. (Los Angeles Times [1], Monday)
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The Power to Tax Is the Power to Destroy [2] by Clarence B. Carson
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[1] Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-poletax7apr07,1,5197254.story
[2] The Power to Tax Is the Power to Destroy: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=5786
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