Rebel Media Video: And now...appearing on the Center Stage...Shelia and Toi!!!

Rebel Media Video: And now...appearing on the Center Stage...Shelia and Toi!!!

3 months, 1 week ago

This came up last week, but it's ripe for more comment.

From KMOX: While he agrees the money would go to a good cause, helping rape crisis centers and violence prevention, the owner of some local strip clubs says that an Illinois Senate proposal to raise funds through a strip club tax isn’t fair, and would hurt the state’s economy.

VCG Holdings President Michael Ocello tells KMOX, “I think people who have been sexually assaulted or battered, we should as a society do everything we can to help those people. I think this is an effort to try to say we’re responsible for that. I don’t believe there’s any scientific data, not anecdotal but scientific data, that links the adult nightclub industry to increased levels of rape and battery.”

Senator Toi Hutchinson’s strip club tax would charge Ocello’s clubs $5 for every customer who comes through his doors, whether they pay or not. Ocello says that would force him to close three of his five clubs and 30 of the state’s 40 other clubs would have shut their doors.

Click here to read the entire story.

In all seriousness, the proposed funding is for a very worthy cause, but there are many worthy causes that this state is currently not funding.

I assume the state will collect this money from these businesses and wait 90-120 days to get it to the people who need it. That's SOP in Illinois right now.

This goes without saying as well: This state is well on its way to taxing the air we breathe.

The video is of Hutchinson and Lt. Governor Shelia Simon from Friday. No, it's not that kind of video.