[Kevin]

So in Boston they want to put a tax on sweets like soda and candy. Also in New York they want to charge you $10 tax at the door when you go into the strip club.

Now I can kinda understand (and I say that very loosely) the slight tax increase on sweets like sodas and candies. We are a very obese nation. We are so lazy that maybe we need a little kick in the ass to stop eating so bad? Now if this money were to be actually used on something good that is a whole other question...

The porn/men's club tax. I don't know how I feel about this. I'm sure that the money that is brought in from these establishments already is quite large. But the money that slips through the cracks is probably even more...

So what do you feel about these matters?

[Eison]

No matter how fat-assed we are as a nation, it is still our right to be fat asses. Taxing a kind of food because it isn't or doesn't seem healthy is pretty much against the freedoms our country is supposed to stand for. Plus you are assuming a lot in that everyone and every purchase is using products like this improperly. What about the fit person that drinks a couple of sodas for their daily caff jolt at work instead of coffee? Or the average chick who needs to have a little stress pick me up in the form of a chocolate bar? If the food or drink is legal for all, then you can't tax it because of issues certain people want to place on it as a product.

As far as the club thing goes, I think you can make a case for taxing adult businesses as well as businesses that allow drinking. They can add to the workload for area police and can even be blamed for problems in the community and decreased product value. But, these places already pay high taxes and have to buy expensive licences to exist at all. And that should be their burden to bear not the customers who want to use them, by charging the customers a fee for being there, you are making them PAY for their morality or lack there of in your eyes.

I think any of those taxes mentioned are bullshit.

[Kevin]

I agree on the tax on the sweets. It does seem against our rights, especially for the reasons you mentioned.

So in the same rights do you see the higher and higher tax on cigarettes not right? Because if you look at it, they are basically the same tax (and for the same reason). They are bad for us.

That was the point I was getting at in the beginning. These businesses already pay so much in taxes. Some of these clubs are so bad they have to have police there to make sure everything is OK. Which is using tax money to keep just that area safe. Which to me, I don't think that those businesses, no matter how much they have paid in have paid enough. Those police could be used elsewhere..

But this isn't a tax for the business, it's a tax for the consumer. So does this make it different?

So do these taxes still seem like bullshit?