A key state lawmaker has proposed a $5 tax on acts of prostitution in Nevada, where brothels operate legally in some areas, and a counseling agency for sex workers that would be funded by part of the tax revenue.
... by [Senate Taxation Committee Chairman Bob Coffin's] estimate would raise at least $2 million a year from sex acts in the legal bordellos.
SB369 would impose the $5 tax on anyone who pays for or collects money for services of a prostitute. The money would help pay for a state ombudsman for sex workers who would work in the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. One of the ombudsman's main tasks would be to help sex workers find other types of employment. [NPR]
A counseling agency for sex workers? I feel like the article is describing a world I don't know anything about. So, the purpose is to tax sex workers in order to pay for social service to place sex workers in other occupations? Hmmm.
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