nanny state Mentality

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

Not "going" anywhere.....be a resident and get pulled over. You'll find out about the "random tax."

Anyhow, you forget about the 60% road taxes, etc in a gallon of gas. That's a HUGE chunk of money to pay for the roads. And, where it properly should be. As a "consumption" tax. The more you drive, the more you wear the roads, the more you pay. The states use those fees too, not just the feds.

And your remark about "not taxing free speech" is just ridiculous. Like the tree falling in the forest; if you have no one to hear it, you have no speech.

Ahh, well, if you get pulled over for breaking the law, you pay the fine, whatever that is. It isn't a tax, unless you consider it a tax on being stupid enough to get caught.

The courts in most countries have long held that the governments can tax stuff, pretty much anything they like, provided that the tax is applied equally to everyone that it applies to. The gas tax you mention is pretty much the same thing: The more strip clubs you visit, the more tax you pay. The only time you can ever fight one of these things is when the tax makes it impossible for people to hear the free speech (say like a $1000 tax would). $20 is nothing, considering most people who go to a strip club will drop hundreds on drinks and dancers. It would be hard to find a court to throw out that sort of amusement tax.