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Posted on Jun 30, 2006

When Republicans push good programs, we like to take notice. This is a great example. GOP Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa wants to establish an office in the IRS that will specifically go after sex traffickers—to get them off the street and free their prey from lives of sexual slavery.


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Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex trade by taxing pimps and prostitutes, then jailing them when they don’t pay.

The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning approved a bill sponsored by committee chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, authorizing at least $2 million toward the establishment of an office in the IRS criminal investigation unit to prosecute unlawful sex workers for violations of tax laws.

The bill’s approval gives the IRS harsh new criminal penalties for use against those in the underground criminal economy. According to Grassley’s office, the majority of the victims of sex trafficking—those who are often smuggled in from other counties and virtually imprisoned in a house set up for prostitution—are girls ages 13 to 17.

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By Call Girl, June 30, 2006 at 4:39 am Link to this comment
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Sounds okay at first, if it means legalizing prositution, or “decriminalizing” it or whatever. But looks like they want to go after traffickers. Does that mean we have to legalize trafficking of underaged girls first?

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