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Posted: 10/2/2014 3:18:01 PM EDT
TOPEKA, Kansas — An online sale of sex toys could give Kansas a boost of revenue.

The sale is being held so the owner of five adult stores can pay off a tax debt to the state.

The Kansas Department of Revenue seized items in July from the stores — operated by United Outlets LLC, under the name Bang — for failure to pay sales, income and withholding taxes of $163,986, spokeswoman Jeanine Koranda said. Two stores were in Topeka and one each was in Junction City, Wichita and Kansas City, Kansas.

Koranda said the assets were released back to the owner to auction the property.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, used the auction to make a dig at Gov. Sam Brownback, saying the Republican leader was “so desperate to fill the massive hole in the state budget caused by his reckless income tax cuts that the state of Kansas is now in the porn business.”

Brownback faces a strong challenge from Democratic challenger Paul Davis because of concerns about whether tax cuts are boosting the economy or potentially ruining the state’s finances. Brownback and his supporters insist his policies — particularly aggressive personal income tax cuts — have helped to create nearly 55,000 new private-sector jobs since he took office in January 2011. The Legislature’s nonpartisan research staff is predicting a $238 million budget shortfall by July 2016.

Eileen Hawley, the governor’s spokeswoman, defended the sale, saying the same process has been use in previous administrations.

“While we do not agree with the type of business involved here, it was nonetheless a legal business that was closed due to failure to pay taxes,” Hawley said in a news release. She went on to say the state can’t legally destroy property and that returning it would have rewarded the business that violated state tax law.

United Outlets owner, Larry H. Minkoff, of Prairie Village, didn’t have a listed phone number.

The auction is on equip-bid.com. The owner of United Outlets is Larry H. Minkoff of Prairie Village. He didn’t have a listed phone number.

http://ksn.com/2014/09/24/state-selling-sex-toys-to-recoup-unpaid-taxes/


Link Posted: 10/2/2014 3:26:34 PM EDT
[#1]
In before the butthurt....
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 3:33:36 PM EDT
[#2]


Relevant!
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 3:34:40 PM EDT
[#3]
Used to fill a massive hole!
Bazinga
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 3:34:43 PM EDT
[#4]
Brilliant!
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 3:38:28 PM EDT
[#5]
I wonder how many smell like poo that you can never wash off....and astroglide.

ETA: The smell of poo and astroglide the the number one argument for atheism.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 3:42:16 PM EDT
[#6]
Sale ended tuesday so you are a little late. I knew about this from a thread that was actually made before the sale ended.
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 3:48:45 PM EDT
[#7]
do u even sex auction bro?
Link Posted: 10/2/2014 4:33:54 PM EDT
[#8]
This thread is dildoes.








No, really.....it is
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