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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.

[MarkL]

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.

Actually, I believe that it was actually "the feds" that were running it, and the brothel was the famous "Mustang Ranch."

And yes, the government run brothel actually lost money. Only the government could lose money on one of the most profitable businesses in history.

Mark