Case in point, Big Band Era music, The world loved it, times were good, WWII had just ended and the youth of the day was having the time of their lives, and Government saw a source of revenue, so it taxed dance halls under the guise of a "Cabaret Tax".
That's right, the left taxed fun.
When are libs ever going to learn, taxes Stifel everything!




Thanks to a 'cabaret tax,' millions of Americans said goodbye to Swing Music. A lot fewer said hello to bebop....

With millions of young men coming home from World War II—eager to trade their combat boots for dancing shoes—the postwar years should have been a boom time for the big bands that had been so wildly popular since the 1930s. Yet by 1946 many of the top orchestras—including those of Benny Goodman, Harry James and Tommy Dorsey—had disbanded. Some big names found ways to get going again, but the journeyman bands weren't so lucky. By 1949, the hotel dine-and-dance-room trade was a third of what it had been three years earlier. The Swing Era was over....

In 1944, a new wartime "cabaret tax" went into effect, imposing a ruinous 30% (later merely a destructive 20%) excise on all receipts at any venue that served food or drink and allowed dancing....

The tax hit not just swells, but anyone who liked to go out dancing—which in those days included just about everyone who went out at all....

Long after the war ended, the cabaret tax persisted. By 1956 the musicians union was bemoaning that two-thirds of its members—many of them former big-band performers—were "unemployed or are unable to make the major portion of their livelihood from music." When Rep. Thomas Pelly (R., Wash.) in 1957 argued that musicians and entertainers were "under the lash" of the tax, other lawmakers suggested the solution wasn't to repeal the tax, but to provide musicians with federal grants.

The cabaret tax dropped to 10% in 1960 and was finally eliminated in 1965. By then, the Swing Era ballrooms and other "terperies" were long gone, and public dancing was done in front of stages where young men wielded electric guitars.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323628804578348050712410108

And then the idiots labeled themselves progressive, completely not seeing the irony.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on March 04, 2018, 05:22:07 PM
And then the idiots labeled themselves progressive, completely not seeing the irony.

Exactly, the irony always escapes the ignorant, much like "Green Energy" killing birds with their wind-driven raptor Cuisinarts under the guise of saving the planet.
Their approach has never changed, it's always been based on stealing taxpayers dollars in one form or another.

I can see liberals looking at people enjoying themselves and saying to each other "hey look, Those people are having fun. How are they doing that?"

Quote from: The Boo Man... on March 04, 2018, 08:45:30 PM
I can see liberals looking at people enjoying themselves and saying to each other "hey look, Those people are having fun. How are they doing that?"

To a liberal, making others miserable, is their fun.

Quote from: Solar on March 04, 2018, 09:02:22 AM
Case in point, Big Band Era music, The world loved it, times were good, WWII had just ended and the youth of the day was having the time of their lives, and Government saw a source of revenue, so it taxed dance halls under the guise of a "Cabaret Tax".
That's right, the left taxed fun.
When are libs ever going to learn, taxes Stifel everything!




Thanks to a 'cabaret tax,' millions of Americans said goodbye to Swing Music. A lot fewer said hello to bebop....

With millions of young men coming home from World War II—eager to trade their combat boots for dancing shoes—the postwar years should have been a boom time for the big bands that had been so wildly popular since the 1930s. Yet by 1946 many of the top orchestras—including those of Benny Goodman, Harry James and Tommy Dorsey—had disbanded. Some big names found ways to get going again, but the journeyman bands weren't so lucky. By 1949, the hotel dine-and-dance-room trade was a third of what it had been three years earlier. The Swing Era was over....

In 1944, a new wartime "cabaret tax" went into effect, imposing a ruinous 30% (later merely a destructive 20%) excise on all receipts at any venue that served food or drink and allowed dancing....

The tax hit not just swells, but anyone who liked to go out dancing—which in those days included just about everyone who went out at all....

Long after the war ended, the cabaret tax persisted. By 1956 the musicians union was bemoaning that two-thirds of its members—many of them former big-band performers—were "unemployed or are unable to make the major portion of their livelihood from music." When Rep. Thomas Pelly (R., Wash.) in 1957 argued that musicians and entertainers were "under the lash" of the tax, other lawmakers suggested the solution wasn't to repeal the tax, but to provide musicians with federal grants.

The cabaret tax dropped to 10% in 1960 and was finally eliminated in 1965. By then, the Swing Era ballrooms and other "terperies" were long gone, and public dancing was done in front of stages where young men wielded electric guitars.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323628804578348050712410108

Never knew that. Thanks! Taxing fun is BS. However, what does one expect from politicians whom earn a living by lying?

Quote from: nzone on March 05, 2018, 02:47:07 PM
Never knew that. Thanks! Taxing fun is BS. However, what does one expect from politicians whom earn a living by lying?

Same here.
Yeah, I found it rather fascinating, and how libs never change their stripes when it comes to Legislating behavior.
Be it smoking, or just being a kid riding a bike without a helmet, and don't you dare let a kid ride in a car without a car seat. Hell, I spent my early years in the back window of a 1933 Mercury and lived to tell about it .

Quote from: Solar on March 05, 2018, 06:36:47 AM
To a liberal, making others miserable, is their fun.

And, even when having fun they are miserable.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on March 05, 2018, 05:44:39 PM
And, even when having fun they are miserable.

What's really funny is how Trump has ruined what little enthusiasm they had for the Dim party, now they're adrift in their own little miserable world.
There depression makes me smile.