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Alabama Lawmakers May Reach into Pockets of Pornographers

• anigbrowl 11y ago
  [A store owner says] “I would say it like this, man: If you talk to anyone who owns an adult novelty shop, they will tell you they’ve been taxed out the ass double or triple before any other business[...]” It's like a new genre coming into exitence before our very eyes...seriously though, the reporter is right in observing that this could have complex and far-reaching consequences, eg leading to the classification of goods by the identity of the seller rather than any inherent qualia of the goods themselves, a principle which could be generalized into other fields - like the unforseen consequence of operator overloading in OOP, for example. It's not an obvious HN story, but I think it is of interest due to these potential second-order effects.