Nevada's legal brothels are feeling like the wife who slips into her sexiest negligee and still can't get her husband to put the newspaper down. The bordellos are practically begging the state of Nevada to tax them, hoping the extra revenue for schools, parks and health care will endear them to the public and give them more political security and, ultimately, more business, the AP is reporting.

But it turns out the politicians are not interested? What?

Last month, one proposal to impose the tax failed to come to a vote in an Assembly committee; another was gutted in a Senate committee. A spokesman for Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn said the idea was "not something the governor is going to waste any time on."

Easy tax money turned down by the government? Since when?

Are officials in places like New Orleans listening? The schools are in a shambles, the economy suffering. Why not legalize and tax the brothels - instead of investigating them? Why not?