bring back the poll tax...
Posted on 08/27/2013 1:31:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ve never been a fan of any form of sin taxes, so called because our august lawmakers deem a particular behavior a vice and then try to ramp up the taxes on its perpetrators to supposedly pay for the cost of the behavior on society at large, but the idea that law-abiding, gun-owning citizens need to pay for the sins of what are overwhelmingly not law-abiding and probably not tax-paying criminals… really just takes the cake of stupid.
But no way is that stopping a couple of Congressional Democrats from fixing to propose even steeper taxes on the lawful purchasers of handguns and ammunition and supposedly funnel the revenue to ‘gun violence prevention.’ Via Fox News:
Called the “Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act,” the bill sponsored by William Pascrell, D-N.J., and Danny Davis, D-Ill., would nearly double the current 11 percent tax on handguns, while raising the levy on bullets and cartridges from 11 percent to 50 percent. …
The lawmakers say the bill would generate $600 million per year, which would be used to fund law-enforcement and gun violence prevention. …
The bill would also increase the transfer tax on all weapons (except antique guns) covered under the National Firearms Act (which excludes most common guns) from $200 to $500 and index to inflation and increase the transfer tax for any other weapon from $5 to $100. …
“This legislation is a pro-active approach to reducing gun violence by using proven preventive programs which have been starved for funds until now,” Davis said. “As part of a comprehensive, multidimensional strategy to reduce gun violence, this legislation closes major loopholes in tax law and lays out an equitable, long term, sustainable strategy to provide the requisite resources.”
Yes, by all means, let’s add yet another regressive barrier to home- and self-defense, so that even more people will be completely dependent on the police for protection, in order to help offset the costs of law enforcement! …Anyone? Anyone?
It’s no surprise that Davis represents a portion of Chicago, whose own “long term, sustainable strategy to provide the requisite resources” for violence prevention has been a direct cause of skyrocketing murder rates but still seems to insist for more gun control as the answer.
Dumber than a bag of hammers...
Sorry Jack...;-)
Couldn’t resist...
Clever!!!
So does this mean we need to dump perfectly good ammo into Boston Harbor???
Why not?
Conservative leaders sat on asses giving these people everything else.
But hey, they got to act like the smartest people in the room right? :)
Well we need a poll tax to stop people who vote for these morons from doing further violence to our republic.
Just another in a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object...
bring back the poll tax...
The possibility that these people will be re-elected by the hardcore fourty-per-centers is absolutlely amazing.
(Not to mention the Independents who like to consider themselves brilliant, who are swayed by the slightest breeze to vote Progressive.)
IMHO
I have a slight breeze I’d like to send in the general direction of progressives...
“I have a slight breeze I’d like to send in the general direction of progressives...”
progressives aka communists
imho
I had some beans and broccoli for lunch, and washed it down with some crab cakes...
Thinking I can up my internal supply of WMD’s with some Tex-Mex tonight...
Ohhhh, what a weekend we have in store for us!!! Woo Hoo!!! ;-)
The Central Government has too much power? Agreed? Solution:
Abolish all FEDERAL transportatiOn taxes and sin taxes on gasoline, tires, airplane landings, alcohol, tobacco, guns, etc. ... but effective date 5 years in the future.
Abolish the Dept of Transportation, except maybe for NTSB.
Abolish the ATF. Transfer ATF field employees to FBI.
Tell all collectors of taxes (energy companies, airports, liquor distributors, etc) to collect the FEDERAL tax for the next 5 years and pay it directly to the state in which collected.
The states have 5 years to pass a replacement tax (or not).
Losers: Beltway politicians and lobbyists.
Winners: Blue states that pay more in taxes than they receive in appropriations.
Red States that chafe at DC imposing one-size-fits-all rules on them.
Mass-transit lovers, who pretty much are concentrated in states where they have the political power to control the money.
Truck drivers, commuters, everyone who drives.
State legislators, governors
Groups like ALEC that lobby at the state level.
Freedom lovers.
Those seeking economic growth and prosperity.
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