JENNIFER STEINHAUER
May 26, 2008
SACRAMENTO — Of all the proposals made by the government of California to help close the state’s $17 billion budget gap, only one drew a bevy of exotic dancers from San Francisco to speak against it.
A Southern California assemblyman has proposed a 25 percent tax on the gross revenues of all producers and distributors of adult entertainment, enraging an unlikely alliance of pornographic film producers, the state Chamber of Commerce and cable television operators. The bill would cover every end of distribution, from movie makers to cable stations to stores that sell pornographic magazines, and would include strip clubs.
The logic behind the bill, said its Democratic sponsor, Charles Calderon, is twofold. One, an enormous tax on the estimated $4 billion industry would fill state coffers, and two, the industry deserves it.
“There is an impact on our society,” caused by pornography and other adult entertainment, Mr. Calderon said....read more
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