by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas is probably not the kind of person that ordinary people would want to get stuck listening to at a cocktail party. Of course that should not be of concern to most of us, because it is unlikely that the rigid Republican and Christian fundamentalist ever attends events where alcohol is consumed or where people might be having a good time. Now that Fred Phelps is gone, Sam is undoubtedly God's main man in Topeka.
After serving a couple of terms in the United States Senate, Brownback rushed home to Kansas in 2011 to serve as governor. He was steeped in conservative economic myths and was going to use his expertise to show the rest of the nation how cutting taxes would actually cause an increase in state revenue. Corporations would have more money to invest in jobs, and people would have more money to make purchases.
Unfortunately for Sam, his plans for a Kansas utopia never materialized, and the state has seen a revenue shortfall that has resulted in draconian cuts to necessary programs - especially education. Not only do Sam's presidential ambitions seem to be derailed, but he also now finds himself in a very tough race for re-election.
In a bid to make up the embarrassing revenue shortfall, Kansas is aggressively going after people who owe back taxes. One method of collection of those delinquent taxes is to seize assets of the deadbeats and sell them at auction. Larry Minkoff, a Kansas businessman who owes $163,986 in state taxes recently had a bunch of his personal property seized by the state.
Minkhoff is the owner of Bang Sex Stores which had several shops in Kansas and Missouri before going belly-up. The state of Kansas seized thousands of sex toys, pornographic magazines and movies, and erotic undergarments from Minkhoff's defunct stores and auctioned them off in four hundred lots over the internet this past week - an event that probably raised as many eyebrows as it did dollars!
The auction certainly did not end the state's revenue shortfall, but perhaps it served toarouse encourage the people of Kansas into paying those pesky state taxes. Sam will get your toys if you don't watch out!
Citizen Journalist
Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas is probably not the kind of person that ordinary people would want to get stuck listening to at a cocktail party. Of course that should not be of concern to most of us, because it is unlikely that the rigid Republican and Christian fundamentalist ever attends events where alcohol is consumed or where people might be having a good time. Now that Fred Phelps is gone, Sam is undoubtedly God's main man in Topeka.
After serving a couple of terms in the United States Senate, Brownback rushed home to Kansas in 2011 to serve as governor. He was steeped in conservative economic myths and was going to use his expertise to show the rest of the nation how cutting taxes would actually cause an increase in state revenue. Corporations would have more money to invest in jobs, and people would have more money to make purchases.
Unfortunately for Sam, his plans for a Kansas utopia never materialized, and the state has seen a revenue shortfall that has resulted in draconian cuts to necessary programs - especially education. Not only do Sam's presidential ambitions seem to be derailed, but he also now finds himself in a very tough race for re-election.
In a bid to make up the embarrassing revenue shortfall, Kansas is aggressively going after people who owe back taxes. One method of collection of those delinquent taxes is to seize assets of the deadbeats and sell them at auction. Larry Minkoff, a Kansas businessman who owes $163,986 in state taxes recently had a bunch of his personal property seized by the state.
Minkhoff is the owner of Bang Sex Stores which had several shops in Kansas and Missouri before going belly-up. The state of Kansas seized thousands of sex toys, pornographic magazines and movies, and erotic undergarments from Minkhoff's defunct stores and auctioned them off in four hundred lots over the internet this past week - an event that probably raised as many eyebrows as it did dollars!
The auction certainly did not end the state's revenue shortfall, but perhaps it served to
1 comment:
I know that man, he was once married to a law school friend of mine. We had lunch together with another lawyer friend from the same law school over a decade ago. I think Larry lost money as a part owner of a strip club. Then the rise of the internet reduced the demand for actually owning dirty pictures.
Sure is a small world.
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