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‘Pole’ Tax: A $5-per-Customer Fee Proposed for Strip Clubs

Taxes are widely tacked onto spending related to alcohol, casino gambling, cigarettes and other “sins.” Should customers also have to pay a tax each time they enter a “gentleman’s club”?

The Top ‘Recession Porn’ Stories of 2009

With an apparently resurgent economy, the media genre known as recession porn may be gone for good. What, exactly, is recession porn? You know it when you see it. Basically, it’s the fascination with all the weird ways the recession has affected different groups of people—the rich and privileged especially, because everyone knows the financial [...]