Democrat Representatives want a 25% internet porn tax

Read this article here from Forbes.com


Utah representative Jim Matheson and Arkansas Senator Sen. Blanche Lincoln are proposing a plan to tax internet porn 25%. The revenue, they say, will be used to pay for the government to make sure all porn sites are complying with a proposed rule that mandates an over-18 verification screen before a user can enter the main webpage. So they want to keep kids from accessing porn, and the 25% tax is the way they'll pay for the cost of monitoring and enforcing the proposed rule.

This is completely stupid on many levels, but here's the bottom line: They want to punish those doing the right thing (the law abiding porn sites) so they can make sure nobody is doing the wrong thing. The internet porn companies who take the time to send 25% of its revenue to the government will be those same companies that abide by the rules and don't let minors in. They are being punished for following the rules. You think a website too lazy to put up a simple mechanism for age verification is going to hand over 25% to the government?

Again, this is punishing those who follow the rules for the people who don't. Outrageous.