[Rhodes22-list] Shocking Truth - Reply to welleducatedslim(political)

[TN Rhodey]

Maybe my knowledge of knots would come in handy for the situation described 
in the article. I would suggest a "slippery hitch" for quick release. For 
those that want to get trussed up a little tighter I know a knot called a 
"truckers hitch" that would work well. I have never used on a human but it 
does seem to keep my kayak on the luggage rack.

Wally




>From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Shocking Truth - Reply to 
>welleducatedslim(political)
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:53:35 -0500
>
>Philip,
>
>I'm thinking there would be some kind of 'gas guzzler' tax put in place.
>Instead of being a CPA specializing in prostitutes, I think I'd rather be a
>workman's comp claim adjuster.  Those should be some interesting stories.
>
>Here's an article on how the Dutch handle things.  Like you predicted, when
>the government get's involved, simple things that everyone knows how to do
>get complicated.
>
>Brad
>
>  [image: looksmart]
>
>
>FindArticles <http://www.findarticles.com/> > Insight on the
>News<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571>> June
>3, 1996 <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n21_v12> >
>Article<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n21_v12/ai_18351571>>
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>*Amsterdam's taxing issue: wages of sin - taxation of prostitution in the
>Netherlands - Fair Comment*
>Ralph R. Reiland
>
>Just when you think government regulators can't get any crazier, along 
>comes
>a plan from the central planners in the Netherlands to take all the risks
>out of sadomasochism. Expanding on the definition of safe sex, Dutch
>politicians are promising that no one will be left securely tied to a
>bedpost as the staff escapes a burning brothel.
>
>"A lot of people don't realize what can happen if you are bound up and 
>there
>is a fire and everyone else is running out of the room and just leaving you
>there," explains Klein Beekman, a supporter of the new rules and the
>proprietor of the Pink Flamingo in Apeldoorn.
>
>Under new guidelines, "Clients involved in sadomasochistic acts would have
>to be bound and gagged in such a way that they could work themselves free 
>in
>an emergency in a maximum of 30 seconds," reports the Sunday Times of
>London. No Dutchman ever has been burned to death, let alone been injured,
>in such an episode, but "you cannot be too careful," says Beekman.
>
>As the red-light district becomes the red-tape district, the politicians 
>are
>promising that prostitutes will be fully pensioned and fairly taxed.
>Leatherwear becomes tax deductible along with other bedtime gear, and it's
>recommended that night tables be stocked with wire cutters.
>
>Also on the table are government price controls to tackle the problem of
>falling prices. A surplus of sadists exists due to an influx of new workers
>from Latin America and Eastern Europe. Mariska Majoor, a former call girl
>and the executive director of the Prostitute Information Center in
>Amsterdam, a public-policy think tank that sells "I've been to the 
>red-light
>district" T-shirts and teaches the tricks of the trade, asserts that price
>controls will "normalize" affairs.
>
>"There's always been an unwritten $25 minimum price here," says Mariam, an
>employee at the Prostitute Information Center, "but the immigrants started
>selling below the price." With the new rules passed by Amsterdam's City
>Council, it's now against the law for a brothel to hire an illegal 
>newcomer.
>
>"Prostitution was always legal in this country," explains Mariam. "It's the
>brothels that were illegal, but the police usually ignored them as long as
>they were quiet, clean and employed no underage workers." Today, the city 
>of
>Amsterdam has about 60 legal prostitution clubs that usually include bars,
>about an equal number of private prostitution houses and more than 350 
>licit
>window brothels. "The women in the windows have the highest incomes," 
>states
>Mariam. "They sit in the windows so you can see them from the street."
>
>Much of the income from prostitution was tax free before Amsterdam 
>legalized
>and licensed its brothels in January. "It was black money," says Mariam, or
>off the books. "Now, prostitutes must pay the 17.5 percent sales tax," she
>says. "There are two sales taxes. A 6 percent rate applies to basic goods
>like milk and butter and the higher rate is for everything nonessential.
>Condoms are taxed at 6 percent, but a prostitute's service is taxed at
>17.5percent."
>
>"Then costs are deducted, like rent, and the net income is taxed again," 
>she
>explains, "at rates up to 60 percent. Most women don't get rich. They
>average as much as a lawyer."
>
>"Europeans are enthusiastic about this district," she reports, "but
>Americans are generally very surprised. They walk with their jaws dropping
>to their knees. Americans ask me if it isn't dangerous without a pimp. I 
>say
>`No, it's not unsafe, the government provides the protection.'"
>
>In the Netherlands, the government is the pimp. As Democratic Sen. Daniel
>Patrick Moynihan of New York has observed, when modern society is faced 
>with
>intractable antisocial behavior, it has the tendency to redefine deviancy 
>as
>normal. According to the Amsterdam paradigm, the "abnormal" describes 
>anyone
>who drops his jaw.
>
>And yet, in view of America's rapidly disappearing cultural consensus on
>issues of sexual morality, the mainstreaming of deviancy in our
>public-school system, in television and in the federal government, why
>should Americans be shocked? It is likely only a matter of time before
>Moynihan's sentiment will be understood to be as quaint as those gawking
>American tourists are seen by the prudent burghers and tax-paying madams of
>Amsterdam.
>
>COPYRIGHT 1996 News World Communications, Inc.
>COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group
>
>
>
>On 9/13/06, 3drecon at comcast.net <3drecon at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>Would the tax rate for a 40 year old be lower than for a 25 year old, like
>>with automobiles?
>>
>>Philip
>>
>>-------------- Original message --------------
>>From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
>>
>> > Slim,
>> >
>> > I'm starting to regret not sitting for the CPA exam after getting my
>> > accounting undergrad. You'd think the 'equipment' would get some kind 
>>of
>> > depreciation, amortization, or depletion allowance. Wouldn't that be a
>>fun
>> > interview with new clients!
>> >
>> > "So tell me mam, what was the mileage on your equipment when you placed
>>it
>> > into revenue service"?
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
>> >
>> > On 9/13/06, Slim wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Some would be employees of the brothel and taxes would be withheld
>>from
>> > > their checks. Others would be self-employed and would be required to
>> > > report
>> > > their income along with their deductions for travel
>>and...um...equipment.
>> > >
>> > > Slim
>> > >
>> > > On 9/13/06 2:27 PM, "Brad Haslett" wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Philip,
>> > > >
>> > > > How would the government tax it, by volume?
>> > > >
>> > > > Brad
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On 9/13/06, 3drecon at comcast.net <3drecon at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> I think the price would go down, since it would invite more
>>competition
>> > > >> even with reasonable government regulation and taxes.
>>Unfortunately,
>> > > like
>> > > >> fuel and tobacco, the government would go overboard and it would
>>become
>> > > >> expensive again.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Philip
>> > > >>
>> > > >>
>> > > >> -------------- Original message --------------
>> > > >> From: "Brad Haslett"
>> > > >>
>> > > >>> Wally,
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> If prostitution was to be made legal (and I don't see why not)
>>would
>> > > the
>> > > >>> market drive the price up or down?
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Brad
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> On 9/13/06, TN Rhodey wrote:
>> > > >>>>
>> > > >>>> LOL....I said I don't consider myself liberal. I didn't mean to
>> > > >> suggest my
>> > > >>>> viewpoints were in any way conservative. :-)
>> > > >>>>
>> > > >>>> My main point was being liberal is NOT the same as being a
>>socialist.
>> > > >> I
>> > > >>>> haven't noticed a response from Ed...perhaps I judged him
>>incorrectly
>> > > >> and
>> > > >>>> he
>> > > >>>> is hitting the ol crack pipe again.
>> > > >>>>
>> > > >>>> Wally
>> > > >>>>
>> > > >>>>
>> > > >>>>> From: R22RumRunner at aol.com
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>> > > >>>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Shocking Truth - Reply to well
>> > > >>>>> educatedslim(political)
>> > > >>>>> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:43:31 EDT
>> > > >>>>>
>> > > >>>>> Holy crap Wally, if conservatives are for prostitution and 
>>legal
>> > > >> drugs,
>> > > >>>>> where do I sign up?
>> > > >>>>>
>> > > >>>>> Rummy
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