Pornography could be a new source of tax

When it comes to politics, Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography.

A new nationwide study of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states. When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different.

Having said that, some struggling Sates have look to unorthodox taxes source, i.e pornography, a billions dollars industry. Some Senator have proposed to introduce legislation to tax the state’s legal brothels, a fee that would be “based on the amount of activities". What’s pushing this idea of taxing pornography and sex trade is this incredible desire to raise State revenue coupled with the desire not to raise the general and sales and income taxes.

If that is not enough, some legislators were also considering capitalizing on another potential shift in public attitudes when they proposed legalizing same-sex unions, which supporters say could help the slumping tourism trade in places like Hawaii.

Whether such proposals can pass is another issue, though each idea has its supporters. Billion dollars budget deficit might have changed some minds.