Brothel Stimulus Program Discussed

It’s been a one-two sucker punch. First high gas prices squeezed away business, then the recession has threatened to put the final nail in the coffin. On the heels of the recent “cash for clunkers” program, several of the roughly 25 legal brothels in Nevada (which employ about 300 prostitutes) are hoping for a similar program.

Like all stimulus packages, this proposal promises to aid numerous layers of businesses and individuals tied to the prostitution industry. There is a real multiplier effect for each prostitute that is fully employed. For each sex professional, there is a manager/madame, a gynecologist, state health inspectors, and of course higherer condom and Viagra sales. In addition, each successful sex worker contributes to the maintenance of the “ranches”, along with related real estate (and other taxes), utilities, and improvement projects. And of course a fully employed prostitute can afford to trade in her old “beater” and get a new car as well.

While the “clunkers” program offered up “to $4,500 for each clunker turned in for a new, more efficient car, proponents of the Brothel Stimulus program argue that a government rebate of as little as $25 per pop would do the trick (forgive the pun) for brothels.

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is from Nevada and as the former head of the Nevada Gambling Commission he knows his vice. And his state doesn’t have a single automobile plant, so Nevada has been left out in the cold. It’s about time that Nevada got it's share of the “booty”.