Exotic Dancers Demand Tax Exemption

[PhuturePriest]

Please remember this is a moderately adult themed thread, so please read with your own prudential judgment (If you don't know what "Prudential Judgment" means, this is a sign you should go to a different thread).

Apparently in New York a strip club is demanding that it gets tax exemptions for lap dances, as they are an "art form": [url="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012120905032"]http://www.freep.com...D=2012120905032[/url]

I saw this on Catholic Answers Forums and I saw my favorite post ever on that site:

"Well, if it is art, then maybe they can apply for a grant from the federal government! Maybe poor people can get lap dance vouchers as an entitlement program. The Democrats can add that to their party platform....free lap dances for everyone, because everyone deserves some culture."

Edited September 5, 2012 by FuturePriest387

[BG45]

I'm reminded of the time the Supreme Court was asked to define obscenity and hardcore pornography in Jacobellis v. Ohio in 1964; Associate Justice Potter Stewart made the only comment many of us remember him for, "I know it when I see it". In that case, he said that the video in question wasn't hardcore porn/obscenity.