Can Tax Policy Stop Human Trafficking?
| dc.creator | Fahey, D. L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-19T16:27:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-19T16:27:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description | The total number of victims who are held in captivity to perform forced labor at any one time is estimated to be as high as twenty-seven million. That would be equivalent to every man, woman, and child in the states of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York being held in captivity and forced twelve to fourteen hours each day to labor in sweatshops, or toil as agricultural workers, or service sexually many customers every day with no hope that it will ever end except by death. They would live in crowded, dirty hovels, receive little food and no medical care, and live under the constant threat of beatings, rape, and other violence. Every year, new victims will be added to their numbers. This is human trafficking.This article recommends an economic incentive that would recruit as allies in this war the wealthy residents of countries where the abuse is most rampant, and where the governments themselves, or government officials are complicit in trafficking. The economic incentive that would be used is taxation. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11212/1000 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1381283_code300961.pdf?abstractid=1381283&mirid=1 | |
| dc.publisher | Georgetown Journal of International Law | |
| dc.subject | Abuse-sexual | |
| dc.subject | Exploitation -- trafficking | |
| dc.subject | Prostitution | |
| dc.title | Can Tax Policy Stop Human Trafficking? | |
| dc.type | Text |