Court Upholds the Taxation of Lap Dances
James Barron writing for The New York Times on an important legal development in the world of performance art:
[New York] state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled on Tuesday that the lap dances performed at Nite Moves were not “dramatic or musical arts performances,” as Nite Moves had argued. The 4-to-3 decision said that Nite Moves did not qualify for the kind of tax exemption that ballet companies and Broadway producers are allowed to claim.
This type of judicial suppression of the arts is pretty disgusting.