It is clearly a service that is in high demand and is the oldest profession. Imagine if they taxed it how much the government would take in. If you could get past moral issues, would you agree to tax it?
2007-06-22 08:51:25 · 17 answers · asked by puresatin 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
For the record if it were legalized the std's would be better controlled than they are now because they would have to be regulated.
2007-06-22 08:55:30 · update #1
If I could put my morals aside, and think about it more politically. Then I guess I could see it as a profitable, taxable, and useful industry. It would be a service to those who can't get it, or don't want a relationship to interfere with their career goals. STD's would probably be more controlled as well. If it was a legit business, they would have to have an operating license, and be tested regularly for STD's.
I'd agree to tax it if it were legalized, and be happy that a large part of the people who aren't currently paying income tax(you know, the current "working girls") or social security, would have to start paying it like the rest of us.
2007-06-22 09:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by JP 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every profession needs people to fill in the places of those who retire or go. Prostitution takes young and good looking women so the rest will get discriminated to begin with. To replace the ones that somehow go you will need lots of new comers, which won´t be an easy job for those pimps. Accordingly they will go out and force some women to be prostitutes. In fact most of the prostitutes haven´t chosen to become one by themselves. So we are looking at human rights here, that get screwed up.
If however prostitution becomes a profession, than it will be seen as normal in time and after a while it will become normal for a man to have an official wife and a couple of visits here and there to his mistress. This can turn into a disaster for the family, cause no-one will believe in marriage anymore, since having a child without married parents is already possible.
So where would the tax go, that you would get from that profession? To combat criminals that keep forcing women and even children to prostitution? To finance the homes for children with unknown parents? To finance homes for women, who aren´t eligible for prostitution anymore?
To finance immigrant population to keep up your birth rates, since people wouldn´t marry anymore and wouldn´t want any "outcome" from sex either? To treat sexually transmitted diseases? To treat psychological problems that prostitution causes, both on costumer and provider side?
2007-06-22 16:36:50 · answer #2 · answered by sultan.murat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the moral position would be to make it legal. It is acticity between two consenting adults - why should that be illegal? Think of all the women who do it now, but can only do it illegaly? Think of the risks they face as a result. Think of the marriages that could be helped by letting a guy get a little on the side without having to get into a relationship.
2007-06-22 15:56:59 · answer #3 · answered by SvetlanaFunGirl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a tough question and it would depend on what sort of system you design but I'd consider. Check the website below for a balanced examination on the pros and cons of legalizing prostitution.
2007-06-22 15:55:27 · answer #4 · answered by Jack S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answers is no not a moral issues the men and women that get into this wreck there lives and those around them they lose all their true feelings for others and it becomes just a job
2007-06-22 16:00:55 · answer #5 · answered by Robert C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
prostitution like electric cars are hard to tax like gas is. Figure out how to make sure people will have to pay thier tax to fund the government and it will get done.
2007-06-22 15:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by ronnny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure the goverment would have no problem getting over the moral issuses if it would make them money however I could never get over the moral issuses of it no matter how much money there is it's wrong
2007-06-22 15:55:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
For health reasons alone and the safety of the workers it should be legalized.
2007-06-22 16:11:04 · answer #8 · answered by Zombie Birdhouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do in Europe, but my personal belief is, it is kind of late for that now. There is so much decease out there, it would be almost impossible to clean-up.
2007-06-22 15:56:35 · answer #9 · answered by Lady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wouldn't tax everyday people for it.... maybe if they took some from the prostitutes themselves... it prolly would be what they would pay to post bail when the cops bust em...
2007-06-22 16:01:02 · answer #10 · answered by Wes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋