U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid has called for an end to legal prostitution in Nevada. During an address of the joint Nevada legislature on Tuesday he called for the state lawmakers to outlaw the 24 legal sex businesses operating in 10 rural Nevada counties. Contrary to what many people think, prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas.
A number of the working girls along with brothel owner Dennis Hof and industry lobbyist George Flint, attended the session to witness first hand the attack on their industry by one of the most powerful politicians in the country. And why has Reid decided this is the time to end the only legal sex business in America? It’s a stretch, but legal sex stiffles job creation in Nevada.
According to the Reid camp’s logic the end of legal sex in Nevada will clean up our tarnished image and attract new business to the otherwise desolate Nevada outback. Reid’s proposal will create jobs and tax revenues in financially strapped Nevada by attracting businesses to the state, hopefully counties that now depend on legal brothel tax revenues will get a share of the new windfall. Word on the neon strip believes it’s a retaliatory move aimed to punish those rural counties that didn’t support Reid during his successful November re-election.
Should Reid decide to help with marketing the state to outside business he should take a look at their relocation checklists – abundant labor pool, quality education facilities, plentiful and cheap sources of water, established transportation systems, low tax base – categories where Nevada falls short.
If this effort to ban sex becomes a reality what’s next? Could Nevada become the first dry state by outlawing alcohol? Will caffeine, nicotine, even bikinis soon follow? It would be a natural considering Reid’s strong Morman background.
And finally, how come the existance of legal brothels in Nevada didn’t discourage the glow-in-the-dark crowd locating the high level nuclear waste storage business here, namely the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository?
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