Senator Grassley wants to send tax collectors after pimps!

[Breeze54]

http://www.timesrecordnews.com/trn/local_news/article/0,1891,TRN_5784_4805402,00.html

Senator wants to send tax collectors after pimps

By MARY DALRYMPLE/AP Tax Writer
June 27, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) —

Pimps and sex traffickers could soon find themselves being chased by tax collectors,
not just the vice squad.

Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, wants the
Internal Revenue Service to chase after pimps and sex traffickers with the same fervor
it stalked gangster Al Capone for tax evasion.

Grassley, R-Iowa, would hit pimps with fines and lengthy prison sentences for failing
to file employment forms and withhold taxes for the women and girls under their command.

The proposal would make certain tax crimes a felony when the money comes from a criminal
activity. A one-year prison sentence and $25,000 fine would become a 10-year sentence
and $50,000 fine for each employment form that a pimp or sex trafficker fails to file.

Grassley planned to propose the penalties when his panel meets Wednesday.

"The thugs who run these trafficking rings are exploiting society's poorest girls
and women for personal gain," Grassley said.

"The IRS goes after drug traffickers. It can go after sex traffickers."

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[sam sarrha]

1. thugs exploiting poorest girls for profit and WE WANT OUR CUT.!!

if they charge them they need to legalize it..

but the Russian pimps make some serious campaign contributions so it wont happen

the Russians run most of the sex trade on the east coast

[Breeze54]

2. Yup! lol They want their cut but

I was trying to figure out how would they know how much a pimp would owe?
I mean, do pimps have accountants? :shrug:

:rofl:

[sam sarrha]

5. polilticians are F'n Corporate Pimps.. they want to legalize it, too much

money..

[CoffeeCat]

3. The jist of this sounds ridiculous, but...

...the results might be positive. Grassley is going after sex traffickers where it hurts--in the pocketbook.

If this stops one thug from exploiting a teenage runaway--or helps to break up
a prostitution ring--then I'm for it.

Most prostitutes are women who were once sexually, physically and/or emotionally
abused at some point during their lives. If you can run out of town, the predators
who exploit victims for financially gain--then I say, GREAT.

I agree that it's not enough to punish the pimps, but it's a start.

[sam sarrha]

6. most street prostitutes are drug addicts.. alcoholics/meth

[noonwitch]

8. I agree, it's a start

I know there's the argument about freedom and prostitution, but this isn't some "Pretty Woman" fairy tale, with some pretty girl who just made the wrong career decision. Women who are prostitutes are mistreated by their pimps and their customers, they have usually been abused as kids, and frequently are prostituting because they are supporting a drug habit. I really haven't dealt with male prostitutes or "gigolos" much, so I don't know how they get into that life. My guess is that they do for the same reasons women do.


When I lived in Detroit, or when I drive around the city now, the women I see hooking do not look like they are happy about what they are doing. They look like they are doing what they have to in order to fix up later.

[smtpgirl]

4. Hopefully Grassley will invade MD, I pimp myself

out as a computer geek

[JordanLFW]

7. So he wants to make it

even HARDER out there for a pimp?!