Opinion: Strip Club Bill Is A Sin Tax, Not A Crime Tax

" In her campaign to pass a bill adding a $3 admission surcharge to strip clubs that serve alcohol, Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon may be misrepresenting the results of a study on whether such clubs cause crime.

“There’s been research done in communities across the United States that all come to the same conclusion that where you have a strip club that serves alcohol, there’s an increase in crime,” Simon told Ward Room earlier this month. “It’s an increase in both sexual assault and other crimes that I would not have suspected before starting to look more closely into this part of the economy. The men who go to strip clubs are going to a place where they’re not going to want to spend money on their credit cards, and so have a lot of cash and consume alcohol and are considered soft targets for crime, because they’re less likely even to report what’s going on.”

Simon’s bill is modeled on a bill passed by the Texas Legislature, and affirmed by that state’s Supreme Court "

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