Proposed Tax on Sex Products Awaits Analysis in Kansas

Republican Representative Shari Weber has recently presented a bill which would impose a 10-percent tax on sales of sexually-explicit goods or services in Kansas. Weber’s bill has been assigned to a sub-committee of the Kansas House Tax Committee by Committee Chair Kenny Wilk (R).

Wilk says he wants the sub-committee to make sure all legal aspects are given consideration. The issues to be analyzed will most likely include the constitutional defects in a law which taxes one form of protected speech more than others.

At a recent hearing of the committee, Phillip Cosby, a staunch anti-adult entertainment gadfly, said the bill did not go far enough in his opinion.

“The tax should be 25 percent, not 10 percent,” the conservative Cosby told the Kansas City Star, “and it should be extended to all sexually explicit merchandise, including hotel movies and the magazines sold at some convenience stores.”