Forget marijuana tax revenues, Rhode Island has found the true cash cow of taxes. This will either be a revenue winner for R.I. or kill the online porn industry in that state.

Quote:Rhode Island residents will have to pay a $20 fee to access sexually explicit content online if a recently introduced bill passes the General Assembly this session.
A bill introduced by Sen. Frank Ciccone, D-Providence, and Sen. Hanna Gallo, D-Cranston, on Thursday would require Internet providers to digitally block “sexual content and patently offensive material.” But, consumers could deactivate that block for a fee of $20.

Porn Tax

This has been proposed by Republicans in many other states. It will go nowhere in RI either.

(03-05-2018 06:22 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  Forget marijuana tax revenues, Rhode Island has found the true cash cow of taxes. This will either be a revenue winner for R.I. or kill the online porn industry in that state.

Quote:Rhode Island residents will have to pay a $20 fee to access sexually explicit content online if a recently introduced bill passes the General Assembly this session.
A bill introduced by Sen. Frank Ciccone, D-Providence, and Sen. Hanna Gallo, D-Cranston, on Thursday would require Internet providers to digitally block “sexual content and patently offensive material.” But, consumers could deactivate that block for a fee of $20.

Porn Tax

We'll see how that goes in the courts.

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good luck with that one RI......you're gonna need it....

(03-05-2018 06:32 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  good luck with that one RI......you're gonna need it....

I suspect the senators will need to view each item to determine what will be taxed.

(03-05-2018 06:40 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 06:32 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  good luck with that one RI......you're gonna need it....

I suspect the senators will need to view each item to determine what will be taxed.

#bluepillsadomasochisticheaven

there's no way that makes it to the appellate level.....

of course, with their property taxes to most certainly be reduced due to devaluation moving forward, I can easily see why they're scrambling eggs thinking it's still filet mignon....

Two Words: Proxy Browsing.

(03-05-2018 06:50 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Two Words: Proxy Browsing.

XACLY!

who in their right mind would pay a traceable fee.....nobody really cares about the IP (yet).....

there's always a workaround to all this bs.....

fk'n morons....

So laughable. Old politicians don't have a chance in hell of staying ahead of technological progress. Most of the people who would be hired to make this work are the same people who would most likely be trying to get around it. Not to mention the whole 1st Amendment thing.

OHHH!! Those danged Amendments are so inconvenient!

And a state so small you can pick up signal from the next state over is a bad place to test this out.