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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Sex-shop owners fighting proposed 25 percent tax

By DOUG IRVING and ADAM TOWNSEND
The Orange County Register
May 13, 2008

Teachers: Tax on strip clubs, pornography and adult items would help fix budget, calling it a luxury.

Sex shops and strip clubs would have to pay an extra 25 percent tax on their sales and services under a proposed state law meant to offset the costs of allowing such businesses into a community.

But California's $4 billion-a-year adult industry has attacked the proposal by Assemblyman Charles Calderon, D-Montebello, as unconstitutional and based more on opinion than on fact. Adult-business owners in Orange County say the tax would put strippers out of business and break sex shops that already must abide by strict rules about where they can operate....read more

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