same-same, 50% is 50%...
Posted on 12/29/2012 6:11:49 PM PST by vet7279
"The Hartford Courant reported last week that two Democratic legislators were proposing a new 50 percent tax on bullets as part of a broader gun-control bill. The Connecticut legislation is one sign that the gun-control debate that the shootings will prompt next year in statehouses around the country could morph into an ammunition-control debate, too."
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
It's all been tried before.
A box or a bullet?
Yep, this will really solve the problem. I am sure the bad guys who shoot people and commit robberies with stolen guns will be really upset when they run out of stolen ammo and make a quick stop at Walmart only to find out they have to pay extra money.
Politicians are not only insane, they are stoopid!
Politician buffoonery creating yet another black market. The Mexican smugglers will love this one.
This is nothing new. I still remember the video of Moynihan laughing and saying we can tax this out of existence.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/04/us/moynihan-asks-big-tax-increase-on-ammunition.html
Oh and adding a hefty tax on tobacco has worked so well to get people to get smoking too.
Freaking idiots!
It is not a tax, it is a revenue enhancement... /s
same-same, 50% is 50%...
Ohh I misread it, I thought it said.50 cents.
The bullet tax is nothing new. It has been proposed many times before.
per box would be one thing, per round, that WOULD be rough...
And we all know that when people get elected to office they automatically
become 1000 times smarter than those who elected them to office.
Saw it coming. So sad. Too late “COMRADE”.
“Truth is stranger than fiction”
Chris Rock on making every bullet cost $5,000.00:
“If every bullet cost five thousand dollars, there would be no more `innocent bystanders’”.
“Dude musta did something, they put fifty thousand dollars worth of bullets in his @ss!”
“And people would think twice! “I would blow your f***ing head off....if I could afford it! I’m gonna get me another job, start saving some money, and you’re a dead man!”
Oh well, got to laugh at something in a world gone mad.
Why doesn’t the Connecticut legislature simply levy a 500% tax on every Connecticut manufactured Colt AR-15 sold for the commercial market?
Why don’t these gun grabbers put their money where their mouths are?
Right. This idea was waved around when Clinton was POTUS.
But what if I make my own bullets? (...when I’m not tending the still, of course.)
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