Posted on 10/24/2008 1:38:20 PM PDT by outfield
Finding a pro-deregulation stance in the media is often tough, but when if it suits some far out cause against societal norms, don't rule it out.
Sunny Hostin, CNN "American Morning" legal analyst, examined the pros and cons of a San Francisco ballot measure to be voted on next month called Proposition K. The measure would decriminalize prostitution.
But Hostin said there was a case, not for decriminalized prostitution - which reportedly will save $11 million in municipal police spending - but for legalization, which she claimed would "boost the economy in these economic times."
"I think the more valid argument would be legalizing it because I've spoken to a couple of people in San Francisco about this - a couple of voters and what they're saying is, ‘Why not legalize prostitution because then brothels will be taxed, prostitutes will be taxed and that will boost the economy,'" Hostin said. "And in these economic times, this is the one time I think this sort of proposition in San Francisco could, could be passed."
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Having some conservative officials in public office throughout the San Fran area power structure and in the state of California would do WONDERS for the economy as well.
It could also bring a more moral class of citizen to San Francisco.
So SF can also legalize pedophilia, bigamy, bestiality, and drug peddling, and reap in massive revenues. [/s]
I WILL NOT spend a dollar in California.
GTH SF.
The only way to boost aneconomy is to become more productive. I don’t think prostitutes constitute any technological leap. They will cut down on the time a lot of guys waste in the clubs, but pornography already serves that purpose well.
>San Francisco values on steroids.
Don’t worry, if they defeat Proposition 8, it’ll be gay prostitution too!
Oh no! Obama’s media shills tell us the taxes on small business and business in general are not passed on to the consumer but to the share holders ... the pimps will be paying the taxes?
nothing like a good run on antibiotics to spur the economy.
My big problem with legalized prostitution is the major health maintenance costs. The testing and medical help for sexually-transmitted diseases (STD’s) are going to be exorbitant, just as the legal brothel operators in Nevada have found out.
>When decent people leave SF be sure not to turn around for a last look . You should remind your old lady , but she probably won’t listen .
Pillar of salt time.
Not to pick at nits here, but taxing something does not boost the economy. Taxing something only boosts government spending, at the cost of removing money and depressing the economy, whether the commodity taxed is prostitutes, cigarettes or baby blankets.
If San Francisco really wants to boost the economy, rather than boosting the government coffers, it should legalize prostitution and declare that it is tax-free. That way they can save on the enforcement costs and still not take the money out of the hands of the prostitutes who are going to turn around and spend it.
It is a trivial example, but it demonstrates how Liberals just do not understand the difference between government spending and the economy, and that what is good for the government is not necessarily good for us.
And, BTW, if San Francisco is spending $11,000,000 a year on enforcement of prostitution laws, they are not getting much value for their money. There are more prostitutes, operating out in the open, in San Francisco than just about anywhere in the US outside of certain counties in Nevada.
[Legalized Prostitution Could Help San Fran Economy]
But - hey, I thought all those illegals HELPED the economy!
Jobs that ‘we’ wouldn’t do??
They have become a corrupt third world country out there.
Surprise, Surprise Johns!
You’re going to have to take that prostitute even if “she” turns out to be a “he”, otherwise you will be charged with discrimination!
Good luck!
maybe they should try cutting taxes first if they were that desperate, ya think?
The curious thing here....they talk of legalized prostitution and legalized drugs in San Fran...until you explain to the local guy that the hookers and dealers will be in his neighborhood...a block away from his house. Then the local gets kinda freaked out.
These folks want taboo approved and within reach....until they realize just what it means.
Maybe San Francisco should take over the prostitution business outright. That way they can get all the profits themselves!
I remember a story from way back in the ‘80s about how the District of Columbia took over a brothel over some tax case. They wound up running the place for a couple of years while they decided what to do with it. The end result, of course, was that after a short time, they started losing money on the operation, and had to be bailed out by the taxpayers.
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