An appeal to extremes?
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"If collecting taxes on sex work is simply the government assuming the role of pimp, then the government is pimping all paid workers."
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2It seems like a strong analogy to me. This wouldn't qualify for the appeal to extremes because paid workers isn't the extreme of sex workers; it is more of a set/subset relationship. In this analogy, apply the same "rule" (that if the govt makes money they are pimp) to the full set is reasonable in that there is no reason the rule wouldn't apply.
Appeal to extremes is when you make an argument appear foolish by taking it to extremes, so it's more similar to the strawman fallacy.
The OP is more like a claim, where the person compares taxing a source of income to pimping. As Dr Bo pointed out, weak analogy.
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This sounds more like a polemical position than a logically sound argument. I agree with Bo and others that it is a weak analogy.