Detroit Adult Entertainment: Don’t scapegoat Detroit’s adult nightclubs

November 30, 2009 at 8:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments

The council, apparently bending to the will of an influential few, is willing to pursue a malicious course of action that is almost certain to drive 35 profitable Detroit businesses out of existence — along with their $3.6 million in annual taxes and fees and their 6,731 paying jobs.
With Detroit’s tax base disappearing and jobs fleeing the city, with so many other urgent issues in need of the council’s immediate attention, why is so much time and energy being wasted in an obsessive campaign to regulate legitimate businesses into bankruptcy?
Sadly, this is not uncommon. Across the country, especially as elections near, governmental bodies target adult entertainment establishments as easy prey, the low-hanging fruit they can attempt to cripple with excessive rulings — often in violation of First Amendment rights — so they can be viewed as “doing something.”

See the full article from “The Detroit News”

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