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Do You Support Taxing Porn to Pay for a Border Wall?
Should the U.S. tax porn to help pay for Trump’s border wall?
by Causes | 1.22.19
What’s the story?
- A lawmaker in Arizona has proposed a unique way of funding President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico: tax porn.
How would the tax work?
- House Bill 2444, introduced this week by Republican Rep. Gail Griffin, would require all electronic devices in Arizona to include “obscene and criminal content blocking software.”
- In order to access the adult content, users would have to provide proof of their legal age and pay a $20 deactivation fee to the Arizona Commerce Authority.
- The collected fees would go towards the John McCain Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Fund, which distributes proceeds to a number of initiatives—including Trump’s “big beautiful wall” with Mexico.
- “It’s pretty clearly unconstitutional,” Mike Stabile, a spokesman for the Free Speech Coalition, told the Arizona Mirror.
What do you think?
Would you support a tax on porn to help pay for Trump’s border wall with Mexico? Take action and tell your reps, then share your thoughts below.
—Josh Herman
(Photo Credit: iStockphoto.com / milindri)
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