Why not legalise prostitution?
JUST the other day, some lady almost beat me up because I suggested that prostitution be legalised. She argued that prostitution is evil and that all prostitutes need to be doused with petrol and set ablaze. Well, like they say, opinions are like you know what and everybody has one.
JUST the other day, some lady almost beat me up because I suggested that prostitution be legalised. She argued that prostitution is evil and that all prostitutes need to be doused with petrol and set ablaze. Well, like they say, opinions are like you know what and everybody has one.
Well, today I shall share what I think about the oldest profession in the world.
It is true our country is flooded with hot-blooded damsels who will stop at nothing to make a quick buck from that particular part of their bodies.
It is an industry in itself and thriving at that. I hate the idea of someone selling their thing. In fact, the two things I never buy are water and the cat!
However, I think the Government should seriously think about legalising this illicit trade as a vehicle of thickening the tax base. I am told the demand for these women’s services is so high that you wonder why people go into heavy industrial investments when they can just stand on Speke Road and sell their merchandise.
These people are raking big bucks and it is just plain silly for us to just watch them as they laugh all the way to the bank while we wrestle with URA. Look, an average prostitute grosses about sh50,000 daily that would make sh15m a month.
If there are 1,000 prostitutes in Uganda, they are grossing a wholesome sh15b a month, which makes it sh180b annually. This industry is one of the neglected tax avenues, instead of the Government cashing in on it, they are busy bugging us (and themselves!) with TV tax!
You have no idea how much the economy of Netherlands and Australia benefit from this trade. You might bring in our cultural values, but who cares about values these days? Why have values when your people are starving?
Government should impose VAT of sorts on prostitution (the ‘V’ stands for VALUE and not what you are thinking!) who knows this money can help fix the potholes on Speke Road!
I hereby compel the government to create a district for prostitutes. I suggest Manafa be turned into a district to accommodate these people, then we could go on a country wide tour of registering prostitutes before ferrying them to the ‘head’quarters at Manafa! I also suggest a ministry be formed for prostitutes, say like ‘Ministry of Horizontal Affairs’.
This will act as a means of regulating the industry, just like gorrilla’s, we would know how many prostitutes we have in Uganda and probably incorporate this info in the brand Uganda campaign.
Seriously, we should think about legalising and taxing these ladies because we cannot fight the trade. We could use the money from here for AIDS awareness and the like. We could also use the money to pay those ghost soldiers who still owe us money. The only thing that we shouldn’t tolerate is homosexuality. I mean can you decipher a man entering another mans rectum? Yaaaaaaaaak! I am outta here.
Harry Sagara is Executive Director, Bullseye! Creative
Well, today I shall share what I think about the oldest profession in the world.
It is true our country is flooded with hot-blooded damsels who will stop at nothing to make a quick buck from that particular part of their bodies.
It is an industry in itself and thriving at that. I hate the idea of someone selling their thing. In fact, the two things I never buy are water and the cat!
However, I think the Government should seriously think about legalising this illicit trade as a vehicle of thickening the tax base. I am told the demand for these women’s services is so high that you wonder why people go into heavy industrial investments when they can just stand on Speke Road and sell their merchandise.
These people are raking big bucks and it is just plain silly for us to just watch them as they laugh all the way to the bank while we wrestle with URA. Look, an average prostitute grosses about sh50,000 daily that would make sh15m a month.
If there are 1,000 prostitutes in Uganda, they are grossing a wholesome sh15b a month, which makes it sh180b annually. This industry is one of the neglected tax avenues, instead of the Government cashing in on it, they are busy bugging us (and themselves!) with TV tax!
You have no idea how much the economy of Netherlands and Australia benefit from this trade. You might bring in our cultural values, but who cares about values these days? Why have values when your people are starving?
Government should impose VAT of sorts on prostitution (the ‘V’ stands for VALUE and not what you are thinking!) who knows this money can help fix the potholes on Speke Road!
I hereby compel the government to create a district for prostitutes. I suggest Manafa be turned into a district to accommodate these people, then we could go on a country wide tour of registering prostitutes before ferrying them to the ‘head’quarters at Manafa! I also suggest a ministry be formed for prostitutes, say like ‘Ministry of Horizontal Affairs’.
This will act as a means of regulating the industry, just like gorrilla’s, we would know how many prostitutes we have in Uganda and probably incorporate this info in the brand Uganda campaign.
Seriously, we should think about legalising and taxing these ladies because we cannot fight the trade. We could use the money from here for AIDS awareness and the like. We could also use the money to pay those ghost soldiers who still owe us money. The only thing that we shouldn’t tolerate is homosexuality. I mean can you decipher a man entering another mans rectum? Yaaaaaaaaak! I am outta here.
Harry Sagara is Executive Director, Bullseye! Creative