New York taxes lap dances in strip clubs.
And that, says Richard A. Snowden, is one of the main reasons he is leaving Buffalo.
Snowden earlier this week said he is leaving for Las Vegas because he can't get far in local politics as the owner of a gentleman's club. But on Friday, he acknowledged that lap-dance taxes - and other state levies - are also big reasons for his unhappiness.
According to Snowden, the state wants him to pay $216,000 in sales taxes on private lap dances provided by the nearly nude performers in his Rick's Tally-Ho club in Cheektowaga.
"I'm not a crybaby, [but] these tax issues are keys to the whole reason why I'm leaving this state," Snowden said. "Nobody wants to pay taxes that they don't owe. . . . It's human nature."
Snowden doesn't think he can get far in local politics while owning a strip club, eh? Well he should move to my hometown, where one of city council members not only owns the local strip club but has the fact that he owns it listed proudly in his biography page on the city council website.
And local government is pretty easy on taxes here too.