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• Laws and Politicians, Mostly Bad
Governor Rick Perry becomes a friend of what Texans call sin.
He wants to give billions of dollars in property tax reductions to the most affluent homeowners while making up part of the revenue loss through a vast expansion of legal gambling ... tax of at least US$5 each time a patron enters a topless bar.
One judge doesn't approve:
There is a difference between taxing sins you have already made legal and making new sins legal so you can tax them,' he said.