Senator wants IRS to chase after pimps

[IDemo]

Sex traffickers would be treated like gangster Al Capone

AP - Updated: 5:05 p.m. ET June 27, 2006

WASHINGTON - 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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13580315/

[demosincebirth]

1. Its going to get hard out there for a pimp.

[IDemo]

5. Define "hard"

[superconnected]

2. So stupid.

I bet their base starts believing the problem is pimps now and not crooked corporations and law makers.

[truthisfreedom]

3. heh. they deserve it.

we need that tax revenue so i can keep my tax cut and we can keep killing brown people in Iraq, right?

[Chipper Chat]

4. Memo to Grassley: Lots of pimps and hookers will be on duty

at the 2008 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Plan now to have them all arrested and imprisoned. But be sure to inform the public of all the REPUBLICAN convention-goers snared up and fined in your sting will ya? It's only fair!

[Moderator]

6. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2359392