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To: Baldur Fjvlnisson who wrote (304186)	10/4/2002 12:11:29 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The rewards and the excesses came from the Clinton " No body is watching the Bank" management philosophy. President Bush is trying to stop the leaks and adjust the rudder to get the ship of America back on course.....

To: Baldur Fjvlnisson who wrote (304186)	10/4/2002 12:13:22 PM
From: dawgfan2000	Respond to of 769670

I suppose you feel the European governments are smarter than the Americans... Taxing the Wages of Sin A massive influx of foreign sex workers--and the health and crime risks that come with it--are forcing European governments to reconsider old attitudes toward prostitution. Germany and the Netherlands have recently passed laws that regulate the sex trade. Now Italy and Scotland are considering similar measures. "It offers a more pragmatic solution by considering prostitution as a kind of labor," says Marieke van Doorninck, a consultant at the Institute for Prostitution Issues in Amsterdam. Soliciting sex has long been illegal in Europe, but authorities mostly looked the other way so long as prostitutes stayed in red-light districts. Now, with hookers invading once-quiet neighborhoods, politicians are being forced to address the issue. Europe's capitals are also discovering what the underworld has long known: Sex is a good source of revenue. The Netherlands now collects sales and income taxes from licensed brothels. In return, sex workers get health care, unemployment insurance, and pensions. (Their clients pay 30% more than on the street.) Germany expects to start taxing the trade this year. There's pressure for similar action in Italy. Despite Vatican opposition, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is considering sanctioning brothels. And the Scottish Parliament will look at a bill to create "prostitution tolerance zones." Some, such as France, still want to end the sex trade. But experience has convinced other governments that it's better to tax sin than to ban it. By Christina W. Passariello businessweek.com@@7xr6umUQM8*y3ggA/premium/content/02_40/c3802011.htm?se=1