Mar 31 2008
Senator Fair Wants Porn Surcharge
COLUMBIA — A senator has proposed a 20 percent surcharge on magazines the state considers obscene.
Greenville Republican Sen. Mike Fair says the fee on magazines such as Playboy and Hustler would raise about $385,000. He proposes that the money go to the state Department of Probation, Pardon and Parole to manage sex offenders.
The upstate is just filled with the “moral majority” trying to force their views of morality on the rest of us. I am all for more money for managing sex offenders, but why do guys that pick up a Playboy have to pay for it? How is there a correlation between reading a nudie magazine and sex offenses? Is Senator Fair trying to somehow draw a parallel between the two because he objects to the successes of Larry Flynt?
