Allowing sex workers safety and protection.

After watching an ' Very British Brothel' featuring an well known Sheffield sauna is it time to give ' ladies of the night's an safe space to work instead of this unofficial turn an blind eye policy? I really think it should be legal instead of women working on the streets giving an chance for an wannabe ripper to strike let's face it men want sex married or not theirs always going to be an demand for it.

Yes, its very close.

 

UK market for illicit drugs is around £5 billion.

 

Tobacco smuggling costs over £2 billion in lost revenue each year.

 

Alcohol smuggling costs the UK economy around £1 billion a year in lost revenue.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjhgariiO3LAhWJuRoKHSpdA4cQFggtMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F401233%2F04562_alcohol_quartely_report_IW_v1D_web.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFqZJnh-VqJ1XCchP4v7QY2k411vA&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d2s

 

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwizzb2gie3LAhUEXhoKHR5_AaYQFggjMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F418732%2FTackling_illicit_tobacco_-_From_leaf_to_light__2015_.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGs9aAcSndH5-t89DtOkVC31NN0TA&bvm=bv.118443451,d.d2s

Lost tax revenue is not at all the same thing as the value of the trade.

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£3 billion in lost tax means the total sales of illicit tobacco and alcohol is higher than £3 billion.

No it doesn't. The tax on tobacco is something like 70% isn't it? In which case the sale price without tax would be only 30%, so if that's the price they sell at (it might not be) it would mean the total sales would be less than £1.5billion.

Interesting reading though, the black market is created by the high level of taxation, legality not withstanding in this case.

So legalise drugs, and don't punitively tax them.

Legalise prostitution and tax the income like any other income.

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Drug dealers will sill find buyers, they will sell higher potency, sell to kids.

All the evidence (which we've gone through with you before) says otherwise.

---------- Post added 12-01-2017 at 22:35 ----------

I wouldn't criminalise the user, I would help them stop using it, it would be illegal to produce, sell and distribute, but not use.

On what moral basis would you ground this action?