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German city pares budget deficit with "sex tax"
Prostitutes, many of them gypsies from Romania, work the streets of Berlin in the Kurfurstendamm area of the city.
Challenged with a 100 million euro ($133 million) deficit, one western German city has introduced a day tax on prostitutes to help whittle down its budget gap.
The new “pleasure tax” requires prostitutes in Dortmund to purchase a 6 euro “day ticket” for each day...