Miami-Dade Mayoral Candidate Proposes a Stripper Tax
- Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:01pm by
Mike Opelka
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There is a recall election slated for March 15th in Miami-Dade County, the results of which will determine the future of current county mayor Carlos Alvarez. Should the mayor find himself recalled, a new election just might launch a very different career for Luther Campbell, the former frontman of the controversial rap group 2 Live Crew. Campbell, who has also answered to the names “Luke Skyywalker” and “Uncle Luke” claims to have legitimate reasons for running as well as the business acumen to handle the troubled county.
Perhaps most surprising in the news of Mr. Campbell’s candidacy it that he has some fairly well-formed positions on topics like the budget;
“I’ll review the county budget with a fine-toothed comb. When I ran my record company, every year we would first go over what was making revenue for us and beef that side up. Then we would cut the areas where we were not generating revenue. The first place we looked was payroll. I’ll do the same with the county budget.”
It should be noted that Campbell is addressing a vital issue here as the spark that inspired this recall referendum was the county’s recent tax increase levied as the board also granted themselves substantial raises.
And then he steps into the fringes and introduces a plank in his platform that will forever be known as “the stripper tax.”
“Even though all my stripper friends are gonna be mad at me, I think we can stimulate the economy with a tax on strippers. They make all this money and don’t pay taxes. I’d take that cash and put it into a fund where it supports youth athletics for girls like cheerleading or softball. Or it can go to help pay for existing little girls programs that are struggling to get government assistance.”
The stripper tax is not exactly beating swords into plowshares, but taxing exotic dancers to pay for more programs for young girls certainly qualifies as making lemonade from lemons.
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Comments (55)
flyguync
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 8:05pmWe can just put tax agents in all strip clubs and have them take their cut directly from the G-string!
Report Post »Soldier4Christ
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 7:51pmI have actually been fond of this guy for a while now. I remember his music well, but he has changed his life. He had been involved in lots of beneficial programs for the youth. Cities have similar taxes all the time. They are known as sin taxes. It curbs bad behavior and makes the city some money. Does anybody know how much money this State makes from Casinos? Its a lot. Since these girls are doing it anyway and making lots of money (undeserved) we should tax them. It will help them and help us.
Report Post »Soldier4Christ
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 8:12pmAn hourly tax with these girls is the way to go. Tax them for every hour they are there in a week. I am strongly against most taxes, but this tax is a good one. Give the man some credit. He has come along way from how he used to be.
Report Post »Soldier4Christ
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 8:25pmP.S. This is not the same as legalizing something just to tax it. That would be ridiculous. This is an activity that is already legal, generates a lot of money (undesirably), and could help curb immoral behavior.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 7:51pmI may move to Miami and vote for this guy. he’s spot on. There needs to be a whore tax too. legalize it, health ise it, tax it. we’ll get rid of the “crime”, the health issues like STD’s, and we’ll collect the money from the business as well.
For all you Christian folks – this “problem” has been with us forever – let’s deal realistically with it.
Report Post »TMan2020
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 6:21pmGet away from that flag, you scumbag!
Report Post »texanbychoice
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 5:36pmIf we charge Sean Hannity $1 everytime he says the word literally, uses the phrase “etc. etc”. or uses the phrase “in other words” we could go a long way to balancing the budget. Then we could charge a quarter for the use of the word “awesome” and the word “like” amongst teenagers, another gazillion dollars in revenue.
Report Post »green_manalishi
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 5:50pmIf we charged liberals 5 cents every time they had something meaningfull to say we would literally have nothing in literally no-time
Report Post »fly892
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:58pmWhere is the Exit?
TMI……………..
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:44pmHow about you don’t fall into the “imbecile” trap? Don’t tax anything!! That which we earn is that which we keep. Can you dig it?
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 10:48pmyes!!
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:38pmSources? Are you even human? Not a good way to present your bigoted argument. Actually, it’s not an argument. It’s spam.
Report Post »Soldier4Christ
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 8:13pmI not sure if your comment was directed towards me. If I offended your mother I apologize, but I don’t need souses to state the obvious.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:20pmleaven the lap dancers alone!!! they stimulate me
Report Post »LibsRstupid
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:19pmAnother Sin Tax LMAO
Report Post »donh2
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:18pmTaxes are obscene enough as it is.
Report Post »Miami Bob
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:01pmIf America needed an enema, the best place to start would be Miami… Crime is up and the beaches are too often polluted due to over population and the government corruption is blatantly out in the open. Not to mention ever time you turn around, somebody has their greasy palm out…
Report Post »Marnin
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:49pmstimulate the economy by putting a tax on strippers? Not only will that not stimulate the economy, but a lot of other things won’t be stimulated as well!
Report Post »reckless
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:07pmDamn!
Report Post »You stole my thunder!
right-wing-waco
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:13pmHis wearing of the Flag of my country is not only offending to me but bad flag ediqute (sp). He should know better. Shame, shame, shame.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:05pmVery shifty, knowing that obviously a comment of this kind will gain notoriety. Sounds like the fellow graduated from the School of Slick BS founded by Barack whose-insane Obama.
Report Post »Colhauser
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:59pmFor one thing is, that Luther is a believer of the Constitution, His one song Banned in the USA, he points out that he is strong supporter of the US and the flag
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:47pmHey, the guy’s a businessman who knows how to turn a profit. I’d take him being in government any day over the sloth we now elect everywhere in the country. Strippers at least provide entertainment for the money they receive. Politicians clean US out and what do they leave behind…….PAIN!
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:23pmI like that he‘s a businessman and I’m sure he is very knowledgeable in the recording industry. But as soon as he sees a pile of money on the floor of another industry, he wants some. For the children.
Report Post »historypaper
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:35pmThe Luther Campbell tar and feather party.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:23pmMaybe the liberals will come up with a Brain Tax next
Taxing the smart to pay for the stupid
oh wait…
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:37pmLiberals are not stupid. Liberals are Americans just like progressives and conservatives. We need all thinkers to work together to fix our country.
Report Post »LibsRstupid
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:22pmLibs have on brains
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 4:40pm“Liberals are Americans just like progressives and conservatives. We need all thinkers to work together to fix our country”
This just proves the difference between Conservatives and the left-wing moonbats. It is not the Governments responsibility to FIX the country. If the government would get out of the way the country will fix itself.
Report Post »BrianT
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:22pmWho, exactly, is going to reach in their “purses” and count this money?
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:21pmThen they’ll tax thingy.
Report Post »roxee
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:19pmIf we understand that the US is a Corporation , ( Feb.21,1871 41 Congress Sec 34,Session III, chaps. 61,61 , DC. Act of 1871) that has unfortunately in totall downfall ecnomoically has been stripped already!
Report Post »jagr1850
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:16pmlet’s just tax the crap out of the next moron who tries to fix a problem with the word TAX $$$$$
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 5:53pmOK, then, is there a tax deduction on the money YOU give to strippers? Would the girls have to fill out Florida’s version of the 1099?
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:07pmLiberals are always to strip us of our money with some kind of tax.
Report Post »Strippers,… take it off
And vote republican!
republitarian
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:14pmTea Pasty Patriots!
Seriously, this guy doesn‘t know what he’s talking about. “They make all this money and don’t pay taxes. “No one would do that job if it wasn’t for “all this money,” and everyone who works for tips is required to report that as income to the IRS. It’s not their fault that Florida has no state income tax.
Report Post »Mizurax
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 6:11pmFirst of all, in my experience, most people who work for “cash tips” don’t report those tips to the IRS.
Second, there is a much better way to solve this problem. Eliminate the income tax and the IRS, and simply make a nationwide sales tax. A nationwide sales tax would tax everyone: Strippers, servers, valets, drug dealers… EVERYONE.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 10:28pmTea Pasty Patriots has promise. Could you imagine the lefts reaction if there was a stripper faction of the Tea Party? What kind of violence would the lame stream media accuse them of?
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:37pmIf we were to establish a bull$#it tax, the liberals would generate enough tax money to pay the national debt! Miami is my home town but between this crap and Wasserman-Schultz I am ashamed of it and will never go back! Besides, I don’t speak the language there anymore!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:03pmThis will be a money maker for them.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:10pmlets tax bartenders to pay for aa…….lets tax waiters so we can pay for obiesity programs………stoip already!!!!@!
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:13pmHeathen!
Report Post »OneFunR6
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:17pmIn Miami-Dade County?
You really think so?
Oh, HELL YEA!
MORE taxes for EVERYONE, before anyone has NONE…….
Oops, waaaaay too late for THAT.
Maybe that should read, ‘More food-stamps for EVERYONe, before anyone has none.’
“OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA”
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:18pmI think we can stimulate the economy with a tax on strippers.
Report Post »————
This applies to both
MALE
and FEMALE
strippers , right ?
Because they both stimulate.
The economy
booger71
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:33pmI would rather see a rap and hip hop tax, or tax guys who wear their pants below the waist, or wear gaudy gold chains around their necks.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:40pmLet me guess … Democrat?
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 2:54pmI can’t understand why…this will hit the politicians the hardest. But they are no fools…they will just double down with the Call Girl business.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 3:40pmI don’t think there are enough idiots in Dade County to elect him…God help them if there is…what a dufus.
Tax rap albums, maybe that will end the crap…
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 5:59pmI don’t know about the economy but those female strippers surely stimulate me!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 6:35pmI propose a crooked politician tax !!!!
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