Free Speech Coalition Meeting in Vegas at the Lingerie Convention - Synopsis

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Zoning for adult entertainment Businesses

Allen Lichtenstein who is an attorney, and representative for ACLU, told about a "tax" that Nevada has recently passed on adult entertainment industries.

Basically, you can't single out a business type and tax them unduly, you can only charge them admistrative costs, etc. for licensing.

What Nevada has done to get around this is they say, ok adult entertainment causes more violence and crime in the area, therefore we need to use more police because of this, and this causes our costs to go up, so we can charge these people a higher tax.

When this law was up for discussion, not one business from the adult entertaintment industry was there to speak against it. The only party was the ACLU. The law was passed, although amended so that only entertainment clubs that are 300 seats or larger are subject to the tax.

They are trying to get this decreased. I asked the question, did they forsee an adult entertainment tax on the type of businesses we run? Home based webmaster businesses, have no clients at our house, etc. etc. and they are feeling with the conservative government we now have in charge, this could be a trend.

I don't know about you, but to hell with a sin tax on our business. And I could see them adding photographers into that mix too very easily.

I'm gonna be using alot in this post. Truthfully, I am guilty of not following what laws are up, but damn, you'd think some of those big clubs in Vegas would be! I can't believe none of them showed up to fight this.