Legalizing and taxing vices(in this case prostitution)

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In article <8...@drutx.UUCP> d...@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL) writes:

>I also oppose such legalization, but for different reasons. For instance,
>legalizing prostitution makes the government the pimp this time. I would
>rather they be decriminalized; not legal, not illegal, not taxed -- just
>left alone. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>David Olson
>..!ihnp4!drutx!dlo
>
Every act is either legal or illegal by definition. Sometimes it takes long
court case to decide *which* of these categories a given act belongs in,
but it is always at least potentially in exactly one of the two.

"If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice!"

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