D.C. forgot to add ... No Criminals will be emboldened by this legislation.
April 10, 2013 4:00 A.M.
A Tax on Freedom
Punitive taxes on guns and ammunition will punish only the law-abiding.
By Charles C. W. Cooke
‘I’m not asking to take away people’s guns,” Maryland legislator Jon Cardin nervously told Politico this week. “I’m just saying that for an activity that is relatively dangerous, obviously, people who participate in that activity should pay the full costs of that activity.” America, witness a guileful new tactic of the gun-control movement.
Cardin (a nephew of U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat), who wishes “to tax bullets at 50 percent,” was outlining an increasingly popular progressive idea: If you can’t regulate something, why not tax it in lieu? Similar proposals — by which states impose specific levies on purchases of firearms and assorted peripheral items — are now being considered in California, Nevada, and New Jersey; and in Chicago,
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/345160/tax-freedom-charles-c-w-cooke