Here in AZ we get a steady stream of strippers from CA who come here to work on the weekends because they can't make any money over there.

I rarely go to the clubs anymore, but my friends confirm this old observation. They also no longer go to strip clubs in CA when they go over there for a weekend because the laws have ruined the clubs compared to what we have in Phx.

So go ahead and impose that law. Maybe we'll start seeing CA residents weekend in AZ for the tittie bars. We'll just have to figure out how to get them to go home on Monday.

It's gonna cost more to get into the Capitol building.

They are trying to do the same thing in Illinois:

http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1963537237/Strip-club-owners-oppose-pole-tax-legislation

So...a poll tax is unconstitutional, but a pole tax is fine?

They did it in Texas- $5 per person. The club owners challenged it in court... I don't know what the current legal status is.

"Maybe we'll start seeing CA residents weekend in AZ for the tittie bars. We'll just have to figure out how to get them to go home on Monday..." Oh, no, Terry, they won't go home. Next thing you know, you'll see incoming herds of Priuses and Fiats, and people talking about "how far my money goes here..." Before you know it, your city will pass a law banning plastic bags at grocery stores, and the new townspeople will send petitions to Trader Jones to please, please open up a store downtown.

Same goes for all luxury tax and vanity tax. Taxes aren't supposed to be used to punish you for having questionable morals or buying things you "don't NEED" with money you earned.

Just curious Terry- what are the laws in California you are referring to? Up here in Idaho we have full nudity strip clubs, usually with alcohol served next door.

Why can't you tax them based on type of business? They liscense them, zone them, give them special liquor laws, and make the people that work there be liscensed too.

I kinda like the law. Until they come tot ax movie theatres, too. Yep, I'm a hipocrit. At least I know it and admit it. That's step one.

Assemblyman Das Williams' office states that the cash is needed to help fund sexual assault awareness, prevention and treatment services, forensic exam rape-kits and programs that support victims of blah blah blah sexual exploitation through blah blah human trafficking blah.

The usual.

I can do better, of course.

Tax grocery store patrons $5 each time they enter any store that sells foodstuffs. We need the money for obesity programs and to buy scales and XXXL t-shirts. It's for the children. Hell, since you are going to do something of which the government does not approve every time you leave your house, we should just drop a $1 fee for walking out the door. To pay for police and sidewalk repair. And for 1/32 cherokee children of crippled artists. Who pole dance.

I heard that Broward County, FL was once subject to a new law that alcohol could not be served where dancers were "nude".

The club owners said, "Hmm. OK." And promptly dropped the alcohol - and the age of admission to 18 from 21, increasing their business.

I dunno what they're doing now.

I had a couple of girlfriends who were exotic dancers years ago and the culture was actually really fascinating.

One friend danced mostly in Texas, where she did both full-nude and topless. Apparently, she actually made more at the topless, because the joints were classier, but she got her "in" at the full-nude places because she was underage when she first started.

Another friend did this in AZ, and also said topless paid better than full-nude. I was born and raised in Tucson, and lots of gals would go up to the Phoenix area to perform when they needed more money. Here in Spokane (which is close to the N. Idaho border), I've encountered several dancing gals who have to go out-of-town occasionally because apparently it just doesn't pay well here. I've never seen the inside of a strip joint here in the E. WA / N. ID area, but from the outside they don't look that spectacular.

I realize that was a tangent from taxing Tits and Ass at the door, but I just don't really know what to say about it other then stop taking our money. We all know they'd tax the air we breathe if they could get away with it.

Tangent.

I heard that Broward County, FL was once subject to a new law that alcohol could not be served where dancers were "nude". -- Radwaste at May 16, 2012 2:15 PM

There was a strip bar (topless only) on the south end of the area, around the same area that has all the Applebees, TGIF, the local mall, etc. Yuppie territory.

They objected to the strip club. Eventually the Liquor Control Board (LCB), local township, the state, et. al. finally got the hearing on the liquor license they wanted. In the sixty day period to go in front of the LCB, the owners turned the strip club into a private club, turned in their liquor license and went totally nude. The yearly membership was about $15 and an entrance fee per of like $3-5. You could bring in your own beer/liquor. They would charge you $2 to serve you your own beer, or $3 for a mixed drink.

They were eventually driven out of business by the state tax laws. It took about four years.

But the puritan fucks in Ohio constantly amaze me.