AP: Senator (Grassley) Wants IRS to Chase After Pimps

[Newsjock]

http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/feeds/ap/2006/06/27/ap2844387.html

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.

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[allalone]

1. pimps file taxes?

[wordpix2]

11. going after pimps "for failing to file employment forms and withhold taxes

for the women and girls under their command?" :wtf:

Hello, Grassley, are you there? Geesh, next thing he'll want to go after the pimps for pulling a "Walmart" and not covering the girls' health insurance.

[ShockediSay]

13. Lobby Lawyers??? eom

[LostinVA]

2. Good for the going after pimps part

If the activity was legal in this country, then there wouldn't be pimps, and the majority of the low-end sex workers wouldn't be exploited by these people.

[Minnesota_Lib]

3. And who would know better what pimps earn than Republicans?

[iconoclastic cat]

4. "Pimp better have my money!" nt

[IA_Seth]

5. Ah hell naw!

I guess I shouldn't have said something about "pimping" our candidate over in the Iowa forum!

I was only kiddin Chuck! Go back to mowing your yard!

[rurallib]

6. Focus on the pimps and whores and leave the wealthy alone.

"Look - over there - white woman in trouble. No don't look over here. That money under the table? That's a "contribution"."
Yet another distraction brought to you by the GOP.

[biscotti]

7. Could be that he is turning

on his own party. Gop is Pimps & whores.

[brentspeak]

8. What about prostitutes? (ie. almost the entire G.O.P.)

[Thor_MN]

9. So he is advocating Legalization of prostitution?

I don't think he can have it both ways (in legal terms, get your mind out of the gutter) on this. I'm thinking that requiring a pimp to file employment forms and still having prostitution be illegal would result in a 5th ammendment conflict.

[jwirr]

10. You mean like those lobbyist and that CA rep who were pimping

at the Watergate?

[Rex]

12. Okay, I have to ask

what form would a pimp fill out for taxes? The 1040EZMONEY?

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. As my main man Ice Cube once said

Fresh out of school cause I was a high school grad
gots to get a job cuz I was a high school dad
Wish I got paid like I was rappin' to the nation
but thats not likely, so here's my application
Pass it to the man at AT&T
Cuz when I was in school I got the a. e. e.
But there's no s. e. for this youngsta
I didn't have no money so now I have to hunch the
Back like a slave, thats what be happenin
but whitey says there's no room for the African
Always knew that I would boycott, jeez
but welcome to McDonalds can I take your order please
Gotta sell ya food that might give you cancer
cuz my baby doesn't take no for an answer
Now I pay taxes that you never give me back
what about diapers, bottles, and similac
Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack
for decent shelter and clothes on my back?
Or should I just wait for help from Bush
or Jesse Jackson, and operation Push
If you ask me the whole thing needs a douch
of masengel what the hell crack'll sale in the neighborhood
To the whorehouse bitches,
Miss Parker, Little Joe or Todd Bridges
Or anybody that he know
so I got me a bird, better known as a kilo
Now everybody know I went from po'
to a nigga that got dough
So now you put the feds against me
cause I couldn't follow the plan of the presidency
I'm never givin' love again
Cuz blacks are too fuckin broke to be republican
Now I remember I used to be cool
till I stopped fillin' out my W-2
Now senators are gettin' high
and your plan against the ghetto backfired
So now you got a pep talk
but sorry, this is our only room to walk
Cause we don't want a drug push
But a bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush

[w4rma]

15. So he wants the IRS to spend more time on the small timers.

With the same or less funding. Rather than going after his big time evader friends.

[radfringe]

16. this could be a new reality TV show in the fall

PIMP my tax returns... :evilgrin:

Hope they include those Pimps on "K-STREET" (aka lobbyists), and will it include the kick-backs/bribes etc. that the congress-critters are getting?

It's the silly season folks - the (s)election is just 5 months away

[leesa]

17. Oh really. Never mind the corporations who pay little or no taxes

[zann725]

18. The word "pimp" is an interesting word for certain bribe-accepting

politico's to use, and even more ludicrous for insisting sanctions for others who accept "illegal" monies for illegal acts.

But, white-collar crime has almost always been viewed differently...