Tesseract Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 The French government will hike taxes on profits from sexually explicit films to 93 percent as part of an anti-pornography drive by ruling conservatives. This was one of several proposals to fight pornography to emerge from the center-right majority elected in June. Several deputies want to ban X-rated films from television, but others in the conservative ranks oppose this as censorship. "Our aim is to make this sector financially unattractive," right-wing parliament deputy Charles de Courson told Le Figaro daily on Friday after parliament's finance committee agreed his initiative would be applied from January 1 next year. Courson said the measure would raise to 60 percent from 33 percent a special tax already levied on profits from the production, distribution or showing of any French-made film deemed pornographic or an incitement to violence. Sources: Techfocus and Yahoo! News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted October 11, 2002 Veteran Share Posted October 11, 2002 Sheesh.. I think governments that try this kind of thing are just lying to themselves. I am sure that a huge percentage of the population use / watch / own porn so why do they try and pretend it isnt there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted October 11, 2002 Author Share Posted October 11, 2002 Originally posted by Chicane-UK Sheesh.. I think governments that try this kind of thing are just lying to themselves. I am sure that a huge percentage of the population use / watch / own porn so why do they try and pretend it isnt there? .....and a percentage of those are the government officials that put these kind of laws into effect in the first place. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iCe_2x Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Originally posted by Tesseract .....and a percentage of those are the government officials that put these kind of laws into effect in the first place. :p muauahahahahhaa ... you could probably see tears on the bill that was signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 O... M... F... G... How stupid can a government get? Don't they have better things to debate on? They raise it only to get another income for the country. Anyone who is seriously anti-pr0n never had sex yet either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munki Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Sacrebleu!:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boeing 787 Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 All this means is that there will be more black market porn. If your making and selling porn in france I doubt you would be above selling your porn on the black market to avoid the tax. Everything in the economy runs from the simple rule of supply and demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MytMowse Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Cool bill :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinprice Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Dang, whats wrong with porn? Its funny that we hide things like porn and act like it is bad, but we all enjoy it. I cant beleve they are doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypercube Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Its just enterainment, like all other types of media. What's the big fuss? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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