A Pimp and Ho's Tax

[PhishyBrewer]

I saw this at work this morning and laughed my ass off.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/27/pimp.tax/index.html?section=cnn_latest

 

Senator seeks tax on pimps, prostitutes

Grassley: 'It's a no-brainer to have the IRS go after sex traffickers'

 

By Jonathan Schienberg

CNN

 

Wednesday, June 28, 2006; Posted: 4:28 p.m. EDT (20:28 GMT)

 

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, says the tax code should be used to fight sex trafficking.

 

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex trade by taxing pimps and prostitutes, then jailing them when they don't pay.

 

The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning approved a bill sponsored by committee chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, authorizing at least $2 million toward the establishment of an office in the IRS criminal investigation unit to prosecute unlawful sex workers for violations of tax laws.

 

The bill's approval gives the IRS harsh new criminal penalties for use against those in the underground criminal economy. According to Grassley's office, the majority of the victims of sex trafficking -- those who are often smuggled in from other counties and virtually imprisoned in a house set up for prostitution -- are girls ages 13 to 17.

 

'A no-brainer'

 

"It's a no-brainer to have the IRS go after sex traffickers," Grassley said. "Prosecuting tax code violations can get these guys off the street and yank from their grasp the girls and women they exploit. This crime is right under our noses in the United States, and it's especially horrible when under-age girls are being held prisoner. The thugs who run the trafficking rings are exploiting society's poorest girls and women for personal gain."

 

Asked Tuesday about whether taxing sex workers would somehow lend legitimacy to them, a spokesman for Grassley said that the goal of the legislation would not be to legitimize the individuals but rather to find "yet another alternative to track the money flowing in this industry to get at potential criminals."

 

The bill also calls for more jail time for sex workers. According to Grassley's office, in the past, the IRS has been saddled with having to prove how much income a sexual worker earned in order to show that he or she has not been paying enough income tax. Grassley's proposal will help overcome those obstacles. For example, if a trafficker has failed to file W-2s for five women (employees), the maximum penalty would be 10 years in prison per failure to file, a total of 50 years.

 

Grassley used the example of gangster Al Capone, who was eventually jailed on tax evasion charges. The bill, according to a spokesman for Grassley, will use the federal tax code to shut down illegal sex workers who are hard to get by way of other federal criminal laws and are not targeted by state law enforcement.

 

"For the first time ever, the tax code would help put behind bars the criminals who are making money in the underground economy by selling sexual access to girls and women," the spokesman said in an e-mail statement.

 

Strip clubs a target?

 

Carol Leigh, a representative of BAYSWAN, a San Francisco Bay area sex worker advocacy network, criticized the legislation as being shortsighted.

 

"Forced labor, kidnapping should be targeted, but this legislation broadly targets the sex trade in general, and could target your local strip club," Leigh said. "Those of us who work in the industry understand that this does nothing to improve conditions in our industry.

 

"We want laws enforced against those who abuse us, against those who are violent, and enforcement of labor regulations. That is the only truly effective way to protect the welfare of the women who work in the industry."

 

The sex trafficking bill proposed by Grassley was part of a scheduled Senate Finance Committee good government tax bill.

[Hercules]

Guy in car pulls up to woman and asks "How much". She says, "53.06, tax included".

[Jew]

Pimpin' aint easy.

[ParkTrips]

being a lazy ass jew must be eh joey?

[mcjaco]

Crap, now I'm going to have start keeping a better documentation.....

[Jew]

^^It's about as difficult as filing papers.

[Ryan King]

Since Ryan is from the WEST SIDE....and Ghetto Fresno..I happen to know that Crime rate will increase by 100%...here are my findings...

 

Business/Bankers etc...Will go to pick up a "Female Companion" but only brought 50 bucks with them. The "Female Companion"will be charging 53.06 cents. So this will lead to an increased rate of rape...due to the fact that tax inflation will keep people from buying "Female Companions" but will then resort to the more free sex...rape. Thanks Government Officals!

 

Not only is Fresno known as the Meth Capitol of the World..Now well be the Rape Capitol of the world..which might attract Barry to Fresno...Gross

 

-Ryan

[Hercules]

I just think it is totally ironic that the government is going after these people when every year there are many stories about senators and house representatives going out and soliciting sex