{"id":7801,"date":"2006-06-28T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2006-06-28T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T17:59:07","slug":"tax-that-pimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/tax-that-pimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax that pimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard the argument from those who want to legalize prostitution that the &#8220;industry&#8221; could produce quite a bit of revenue for government treasuries: if [tag]prostitution[\/tag] were legal, it could be [tag]taxed[\/tag].<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, at least one Republican senator has <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/06\/27\/pimp.tax\/\">heard this, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican Sen. Charles [tag]Grassley[\/tag] of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex trade by taxing [tag]pimp[\/tag]s and prostitutes, then jailing them when they don&#8217;t pay.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 [tag]prosecute[\/tag] unlawful sex workers for violations of [tag]tax[\/tag] laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, if a pimp requires prostitutes to fill out W-2 forms and follows the requisite withholdings, will he or she be eligible for tax breaks for small businesses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard the argument from those who want to legalize prostitution that the &#8220;industry&#8221; could produce quite a bit of revenue for government treasuries: if [tag]prostitution[\/tag] were legal, it could be [tag]taxed[\/tag]. Apparently, at least one Republican senator has heard this, too. Republican Sen. Charles [tag]Grassley[\/tag] of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}