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Zieg Heil…

The State has no business in business.  Here’s an example of why.

"A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services’’ at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year."

Do you think Nick Kristof will be buying the freedom of any of the German girls?

“‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’"

Posted by on 01/31 at 06:17 AM

  1. Well, she shouldn’t be entitled to unemployment benefits, anyway, should she, John?

    Bill

    Posted by billy-jay  on  01/31  at  07:42 AM

  2. That is correct Billy-Jay.

    Posted by John Venlet  on  01/31  at  08:01 AM

  3. Ya, I actually don’t have any problem with this, beyond my basic objection to the dole. Nobody’s forcing these women into brothels because nobody’s forcing them to take the dole.

    Posted by John T. Kennedy  on  01/31  at  12:29 PM

  4. JTK,

    An argument could be made that the government is strangling the economy with regulation such that some people are left with little choice except to suck off the government tit.

    Posted by John Lopez  on  02/01  at  12:13 PM

  5. Agreed, I just hold that there’s nothing special about this kind of situation. It’s a plain vanilla consequence of:

    1. Legalized prostitution. (An improvement over what we have.)

    2. Unemployment benefits. (A horrible but popular idea.)

    3. Work requirements for benefits. (A popular but hopeless attempt to patch a horrible program.)

    4. Equal treatment of legal businesses for the purposes of 3.

    We’re only spared this particular pathology because the U.S. mostly embraces a worse one - criminalized prostitution.

    Posted by John T. Kennedy  on  02/01  at  12:31 PM

  6. I agreed too easily. I’m don’t agree that one has little choice but to be a prostitute under shuch conditions.

    Posted by John T. Kennedy  on  02/01  at  12:36 PM

  7. That implication that the girl in question here has little other choice is likely wrong, but some people are legislated out of employability by government intervention.

    Posted by John Lopez  on  02/01  at  02:03 PM

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