The Low Down On Las Vegas Escorts.

To be sure, a long line of politicians, club operators and government regulators have taken runs at ending the practice. Some say the first attempt was made in 1965, after some restaurants were found to be paying cabdrivers $2 a head to bring in customers.
“It’s been going on forever,” said Sheriff Doug Gillespie.
County code banned the kickbacks until March 2006. That’s when commissioners voted to repeal part of the code, banning businesses with liquor licenses from tipping or extending “any form of gratuity to a taxicab driver for the delivery of any passengers to the business location.”
The parties Marquis represents argue that bounties are bad for Las Vegas. It puts customers in a pressurized situation; cab companies lose control of their drivers, who ignore female customers in favor of male customers. And now massage parlors are starting to pay cabbies for customers, too.

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