US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.

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• Zier@fedia.io ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tax all churches. None of them get a non-profit status. It's a business that uses 'religion' as a shield to shove it's 'morals' on the rest of society.
  Taxing porn is just another way that religion is deciding what freedoms you get regardless of the Constitutional freedom of Speech.
  It's forcing you to participate in the 'religious laws' of a specific religion.

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• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “World shocked as children learn to torrent. ‘I thought we could actually stop people from accessing things on the internet’ one dumbshit was quoted as saying…”

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s like none of these morons remember being a teen.

    Blocks never stopped us from getting into things because teens have a lot more time to just fiddle with shit until they find a way in. Can’t get into dad’s computer? Go to a friends house and find a tutorial on privilege escalation or adding admin accounts or using portable apps to bypass parental locks. Hell today it’s way easier since you can just web search that shit. Back in the day you had to find niche IRC channels or little known websites.

    All this is going to do is create a bunch of tech nerds.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As long as that tax goes on all bible sales. After all there is a lot of porn in the bible.

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want a lying as a representative of the people tax. Kinda like a swear jar, but for public representatives and their official channels.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No I want that to be a capital offense.

    If they’re able to prove in a court of law that you knowingly lied to constituents, off with your head.

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It will be abused by the opposite party who will claim small lies count and start lopping off heads. Similar to the “fraud” charges the doj is trying to use against comey and james.

      Fake charges are bullshit when they can take money and time from you. Imagine if they can take your life instead.

      The death penalty isn’t the end all be all that people think since the wind can blow the other direction and power swings with it.

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’ve admitted what they really want is to outright ban porn, so it’s all just trying to push it as close to that as they can get to full censorship.

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  • CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why won’t they just ban it?

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  • Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those goobers use just as much porn as everybody else.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s tax viewing Fox News instead.

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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the bill would impose a 7 percent tax on total receipts “from sales, distributions, memberships, subscriptions, performances, and content amounting to material harmful to minors that is produced, sold, filmed, generated, or otherwise based” in Utah

    Based on the text, it should

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fascist* lawmakers. call them what they are!

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• danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tax automation. Like AI.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I too want porn taxis.

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  • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can have fake taxis

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I want fake taxes and porn taxis

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Best I can do is a bang bus. /s

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