{"id":7209,"date":"2014-11-24T03:56:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T03:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2014-11-24T03:56:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T03:56:06","slug":"let-the-pole-tax-stand-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7209","title":{"rendered":"Let the 'pole tax' stand in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Texas Legislature has gotten a bit goofy in recent years as the state keeps shifting farther and farther to the right.<\/p>\n

However, the 2007 Legislature got it correct when it enacted the so-called $5 per-person “pole tax” levied against patrons of strip clubs. I’m glad that the state Supreme Court sees fit to let the tax stand.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/11\/21\/supreme-court-declines-peek-pole-tax\/<\/p>\n

The court declined to review a Third Court of Appeals ruling that declared the tax didn’t violate the Texas Constitution. The entertainment industry lobby had contended the fee is an “occupation tax,” which is prohibited by the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Not so, says the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

I happen to think this is a fairly creative way to generate revenue for the state. Opponents of the fee say the state should designate a portion of it to public education. The lower court had ruled that the fee, which is an excise tax, can go to whatever program the Legislature designates.<\/p>\n

Whatever, it’s a money-maker for the state. The so-called “gentlemen” who partake of this form of entertainment need to keep an extra five bucks in their wallet.<\/p>\n

Hey, it’s better spent that way than\u00a0when you tuck into someone’s undergarment … correct?<\/p>\n

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The Texas Legislature has gotten a bit goofy in recent years as the state keeps shifting farther and farther to the right. However, the 2007 Legislature got it correct when it enacted the so-called $5 per-person “pole tax” levied against patrons of strip clubs. I’m glad that the state Supreme Court sees fit to let … Continue reading Let the 'pole tax' stand in Texas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3623,4653,4716],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-pole-tax","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-strip-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}