Senator seeks tax on pimps, prostitutes

[Artegal 1]

Senator seeks tax on pimps, prostitutes

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

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 Finance Committee is expected to vote Wednesday morning on the pimp tax. The bill also calls for more jail time for sex workers.

If passed, the provision will authorize at least $2 million toward the establishment of an office in the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation unit to prosecute unlawful sex workers for violations of tax laws.

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Currently, the IRS has to prove a prostitute's or pimp's income to pursue a tax law violation. But under Grassley's proposal, a pimp could get up to 10 years in prison for each prostitute for whom the pimp hasn't filed a W-2, which means a pimp caught with 10 unregistered prostitutes faces a century in prison.

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[aussiewench 9]

hahahah talk about double standards. Make it legal first, then they would have the right to tax them.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

hahahah talk about double standards. Make it legal first, then they would have the right to tax them.

Legalize it. Stay out of a persons private parts... unless you are paying.

[Artegal 1]

This law will be unconstitutional if it every enacted, and not for the reason you would think like privacy, etc., but because as professional salaried exempt contractors, Ladies-of-evening and escorts, would not be paid on a W-2, but instead on a 1099, and therefore responsible for paying their own taxes.

"pimp could get up to 10 years in prison for each prostitute for whom the pimp hasn't filed a W-2"

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

In the words of the Academy Award winning song:

You know it's hard out here for a pimp

[rclouse 0]

Legalize it. Stay out of a persons private parts... unless you are paying.

Making prostitution illegal is Bullshiat!

[Ban Hammer 14,003]

In the words of the Academy Award winning song:

You know it's hard out here for a pimp

my thoughts exactly

[Fandango 1,440]

It'd be so much better if it were legal....and omG talk about hypocrisy! How do you tax summat that's illegal? How does the gov't actually expect to take money from ill-gotten gains?

The irs would be the pimp's pimp, essentially...

What a crock of shiznit