New Sin Tax: Porn Tax. Trendsetting Tax for the Bible Belt

Alabama is proposing a 40% excise tax on porn to cover a $250 Million spending deficit. Cut services? No, thank you. Tax Sin? Yes, please. 

What’s being taxed: any book, magazine, newspaper, printed or written matter, writing, description, picture, drawing, animation, photograph, motion picture, film, video tape, pictorial presentation, depiction, image, electrical or electronic reproduction, broadcast, transmission, video download, telephone communication, sound recording, article, device, equipment, matter, oral communication, depicting breast or genital nudity or sexual conduct.

Tax Rate: All other taxes like sales tax + 40% tax rate for being porn.

Success rate according to lawyers: Low. 1st Amendment free speech applies to things you don’t like too. 

Findlaw  AL.com