This initiative would create three great bonuses for the people of the state of Utah – extra revenue for the government, reduction in social welfare costs and
better protect Families from destructive influences.
What Is AETI
The Adult Entertainment Tax Initiative is a legislation package designed to protect
both your family and your community from the destructive influences of Pornography. This Porn Tax
proposal will reverse the rising tide of destruction caused by the Adult Entertainment Industry.
While these publishers reap massive profits local communities, families and charities
incur great costs to clean up the wreakage of broken families.
Porn Harms Our Community
The Negative Impact of Pornography is well documented by Family Life researchers.
They have document how it is leading factor in the breakdown of the basic family unit in many ways:
- It increases incidents of spouse and child abuse.
- It increases incidents of marital distrust and divorce.
- It is highly addictive.
- It creates interest in unhealthy attitudes and expectiations for sexual relations.
- It increases incidents of out-of-wedlock pregnancies.
- It increases incidents of abortion.
- It increases incidents of marital infidelity.
- It increases the likelihood that teens will engage in sexual activity.
- It leaves young women trapped in an industry that exploits them and uses them as mere sex objects.
- Families that divorce because of one spouse's sexual addiction increase the burden
on state, community and charitable social welfare services.
- Children of those who abuse porn lose an important role model on responsible adulthood living
and marital relationship dynamics.
- It creates an environment of distrust and disloyalty.
- In the workplace, it can lead to loss of stable employment and have a terrible impact
on career opportunities.
- Neighbors incur increased crime and decreased property values because of the proliferation of pornography in their communities.
- It devalues the importance that wholesome families are a key element of any society.
Publishers of this indecent material profit everytime someone
finds a new way to bypass safety filters.
No Protection For Children
Most internet filters are ineffective in protecting your family from exposure to indecent material.
- Most filters block against less that 50% of existing porn sites. New porn sites are created every day.
- Most filters can be easily turned off by savvy teens.
- Your home filter is of zero use when your family member accesses a computer outside of the home.
(i.e. at work, school, library or friend's house).
- There are no filters for ipod's which can be easily concealed.
Sample AETI Tax Ideas
Sample Methods of AETI Taxes that can benefit our community. Sexually oriented products are
defined as any commercial entertainment that would earn a MPAA R rating or worse for sexual or violent content.
A heavy combination of these taxable venues to could both substantially curb adult business and generate
significant funding for related family welfare service and educational programs.
Adult Product Sales Tax - 25% Tax on every sexually oriented magazine, book, DVD, or video sold by a retailer in our community.
Adult Product Rental Tax - $1 tax on every sexually oriented magazine, book, DVD, or video rented by a retailer or through the mail to our community.
Adult Theater Ticket Tax - $1 tax on every sexually oriented magazine, book, DVD, or video rented by a retailer or through the mail to our community.
Adult Website Host Tax - a tax of $0.10 per image hosted only website orginating from within our community.
This tax would be quadrupled when such images are not blocked from minors with a secure credit card access.
Adult Forum Web Tax -
Adult Club Tax - ticket admission tax.
Dual Use Entertainment Hardware Tax - $5% Sales Tax on
entertainment hardware such as computers, televisions, cell phones, ipods, stereos, game stations, etc.
Adult Cable Program Tax - $1 monthly tax for each registration to a cable channel that provides
sexually oriented programming.
AETI Enforcement Provisions
Instead of having a giant vice squad, enforcement can done relatively easily by offering a $100
reward (or more depending on category) for citizens that discover violators. Tax revenues will more than
cover any enforcement provisions.
Please Take Action Today
Save Your Family and Community!
Please take five minutes right now and let your voice be heard on this very important issue.
Strongly encourage your elected officials to enact AETI legislation before your family suffers.
Contact your Elected Officials for the State of Utah - Official Government Website -
Contact info for elected officials, state agencies and major political parties.
Contact Local Media - Place letter to editor in your local newspaper
Support Utah's Pro-Family Groups _
Contact Your Church - Encourage local religous organizations
to actively support this legislation.
Stop Further Destruction in Utah
Many of the social welfare burden incurred by government (state and local), religious,
charitable organizations and extended family units is usually directly attributable to
family breakups. One of the biggest common denominators today is the negative impact
that created by the very wealthy Adult Entertainment Industry in producing pornography
that stimulates marital infidelity and also abuse of both spouse and children. While these
pornographers make billions of dollars producing their wares, society loses even more to
pay for the damage caused by people abusing their first amendment rights. It seems more than
fair that some sort of mechanism is put into place to reimburse for these ongoing damages.
Should wealthy pornographers by taxes to reimburse the state for social welfare costs?
- Tax on Utah adult-oriented websites, cable channels, magazine deliveries, video rentals and sales,
theater ticket sales on any merchandise rated R or worse by the MPAA or state board.
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