Legalizing Prostitution?

[OttifantSir]

Taxes are needed for a country to take care of its citizens, no question there. It's just the unfairness of the taxes I believe (sorry if this is not your exact view Wolfscout) Ws and myself are angry at. For me, personally, it's how the taxes are spent. Here in Norway we are currently building a brand new opera house. As far as I know, a lot of tax money has gone into the building of this. We need culture, and diversity of it, but to cater to one style of culture so excessively?

That's not all that's wrong with how taxes are spent here in Norway, but it's one of the things currently in the news because it's about to open in a short time (less than a year) and it has been controversial long before the first spade was put to the dirt.

To recoup: We need taxes, but we also need to take a long hard look at what we do with the taxes.

When/if prostitution is legalised, off course they will pay income taxes like the rest of us. And I mean like the rest of us. No more, no less. Why should they pay more? It's not unhealthy in too large doses like smoking or drinking or ingesting drugs are, so why tax it more than the two legal items of the three I mentioned?