Comments on: Nevada Prostitutes Support Sex Tax

By: Top 5 Ways to Pay for Healthcare | According 2 Mark

Top 5 Ways to Pay for Healthcare | According 2 Mark — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:56:22 +0000

[...] Tax Hookers: At $5 a pop, Nevada alone could add $2M itself. Let’s take it one step further [...]

By: Oakland Votes to Tax Marijuana — taxgirl

Oakland Votes to Tax Marijuana — taxgirl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:15:17 +0000

[...] While the tax is relatively small (1.8%), it, in effect, legitimizes their product. You may recall a similar effort in Nevada to tax prostitution; though legal, it was not taxed and the sex industry lead the failed effort to have it taxed. For [...]

By: Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:53:56 +0000

Yeah, I think it’s more of a publicity stunt. They have nothing to lose there. The extra 5 bucks do not come out of the brothel owners or prostitute’s pocket. As for customers, they are already paying a few hundred bucks (I think that’s the price) so what’s 5 more bucks. Besides, how many costumers are thinking about 5 bucks when they have their minds on… you know, more important things?

By: Colman

Colman — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:27:28 +0000

Meanwhile in Sweden the tax authorities are cracking down on internet-based strippers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7993694.stm

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:18:42 +0000

Actually the brothels have prosposed a state tax every few years for a very long time. Its only now when the state is really hurting that a legislator is proposing it. The brothels want it because it would make it harder to criminalize it later on.
Also anyone whose been to Nevada knowns this is a genuine legitimate industry. It should be taxed. It is a business that generates needed revenue for the rural counties that have “ranches”. A Nevadan like myself would find a hearing that allows the equally valid voices of the prostitute and the nun to be heard nothing out of the ordinary. Nevada is not a joke Amy.

By: u262f

u262f — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:18:00 +0000

Hahaha! That’s hilarious. Maybe morality has nothing to do with the politicians’ reluctance. From a strictly financial point of view, the brothels should have no problems paying the taxes because it comes out of their clients rather than their business, and an extra $5 shouldn’t be a problem for those clients. The tax would fall on those voting male clients…

By: jennydecki

jennydecki — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:49:41 +0000

Such a shame. All the backlash from companies going out of state for annual meetings and retreats has killed Las Vegas. My mother lives in the same county as Vegas but a different town…the county’s mental health services and other services for the poor have just PLUMMETED in the last year. Everything is being cut. The schools are already mostly a complete joke, and over a hundred thousand jobs have been lost in the last few months.

I love how going and getting a massage is considered normal and relaxing, but if you consensually massage someone in the wrong place with the wrong body part it’s illegal, immoral, and untaxable.

Honestly I think putting some antiquated moral code out there as a reason to let the poor in the county go hungry and without health care is a crime. If you don’t want to let the prostitutes charge tax then make a charitable donation instead of just bitching and moaning and denying much needed services to the disabled and low-or-no-income families.

Hell, at least legal prostitutes get health care. That’s more than many people get at jobs where they feel far more “raped” and less in control of their situation.