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Anonymous ID: 0b1013 Jan. 30, 2020, 4:57 p.m. No.7971524   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1548

Majority of U.S. Voters support Decriminalizing Sex Work?

https://thehill.com/regulation/other/480725-poll-majority-supports-decriminalizing-sex-work

 

A majority of U.S. voters support decriminalizing sex work, according to an analysis released Thursday by left-leaning think tank Data for Progress.

 

The report found 52 percent of respondents said they either strongly support or somewhat support decriminalization, compared with 36 percent who opposed it and 13 percent who were unsure.

 

Two-thirds of voters age 18 to 44 support sex work decriminalization, according to Data for Progress. A majority of voters aged 45-54 and 55-64 also support it, with +11 percent net support and +4 percent net support, respectively.

 

Democrats were more likely to support decriminalization, with 64 percent in favor, compared with 55 percent of independents and 37 percent of Republicans, according to the analysis.

 

Suburban independents and suburban Democrats were both reportedly more likely than their urban counterparts to support decriminalizing sex work.

 

Advocates say that decriminalizing sex work would help protect the rights and safety of those involved, while critics fear it could lead to a spike in prostitution.

 

Data for Progress also surveyed respondents about defunding the practice of vice policing of sex work, which it defined as “enforc[ing] laws against consensual sex work” with strategies such as “undercover stings and raids, in which plainclothes officers pose as potential customers, solicit sex workers and then arrest them.”

Anonymous ID: 0b1013 Jan. 30, 2020, 5:01 p.m. No.7971573   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Another Shithole Country Dems can Flee To if Rich Enough When Trump Wins Second Term

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/got-24500000-and-90-days-uruguay-might-have-an-offer-for-you/ar-BBZtuH3

 

The way Uruguay’s president-elect sees it, his government will face a couple of problems: too few residents and too little investment. Well, why not make the country so attractive to well-heeled foreigners that they’ll pack up and move there, solving both with one blow?

 

“It seems to me that it’s generally accepted that Uruguay would benefit from 100,000 or 200,000 more people,” Luis Lacalle Pou said in a national radio interview last week, explaining changes he wants to make in tax-residency rules in the nation of 3.5 million.

 

Countries from Portugal to Spain to Greece have gone down this road, aiming to woo the wealthy with relatively loose requirements for official residency status. In Portugal, for example, you can invest as little as $385,595 in property to qualify.

 

In Uruguay right now, a foreigner’s path to tax residency includes spending more than 183 days a year there as well as purchasing real estate worth more than $1.8 million or investing more than $5.4 million in a business. Lacalle Pou, who will take office March 1 and end 15 years of rule by leftists, hasn’t said how low he wants to go.

 

Destino Punta del Este, a nonprofit that promotes the resort city, has asked the incoming president’s team to change the rules to 90 days and $500,000.

 

“The idea is for it to be competitive,” said Juan Carlos Sorhobigarat, the group’s chairman. “Not many people are going to come way down here to a small country like Uruguay if it’s not competitive.”

 

Actually, Uruguay has a lot to sell. Nestled between Argentina and Brazil, it’s one of South America’s wealthiest nations. The coast is lined with stunning beaches, the countryside dotted with picturesque farms and vineyards.