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“When the nation thinks about

Donal — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:00:23 +0000

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“When the nation thinks about Nevada, it should think about the world’s newest ideas and newest careers, not about its oldest profession,” Mr. Reid said. “If we want to attract business to Nevada that puts people back to work, the time has come to outlaw prostitution.”
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It is unclear what motivated Mr. Reid at this moment. When a reporter asked him why now, he answered, “If not now, when?”

Think about it. From a

Beetlejuice — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:16:51 +0000

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Think about it. From a government standpoint, especially if you consider tea-baggers and GOPer's, it's cheaper to legislate morality. To do otherwise with cut into the profits of their biggest political campaign donors. Cigarettes and tobacco products, alcohol from beer, wine and whiskey, to porn, sex trade and sexual violence are all cash cows for business. The government stepped in and tried to make a severe change with health care, high emphasis on preventive care to reduce costs in the long run and look at the resistance it was met with. Both the business sector and a fairly large %age of the public are more than happy with the current arrangement, I don't need a tune-up just fix me when I brake down, and could care less of the costs a few years from now. So it's cheaper to pass laws telling people not to do something than it is to implement actually change where learnt vices, such as smoking, drinking or violence, are treated as illegal actions rather than the addictions they really are. Too bad because addictions are easier to treat on an outpatient status in the medical field rather than being charged for a crime and being sentenced to prison for breaking the law. But prisons are slowly being turned over to the private sector so there's another source of campaign contributions that needs to be nurtured.

What an odd issue for Reid to

kgb999 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:32:40 +0000

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What an odd issue for Reid to weigh in on at this point. NYT wanted a login, so I didn't read the article, did he explain *why* he'd decided to take the issue up now?