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Chicago: First US Gun Tax 'Will Stem Carnage'
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Posted on 11/03/2012 1:15:22 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Chicago: First US Gun Tax 'Will Stem Carnage'

There are hopes a levy will reduce attacks in the President's adopted city, although he has been largely silent on gun control.

7:40pm UK, Saturday 03 November 2012

By Gary Mitchell, in Chicago

A leading anti-gun campaigner has told Sky News a new tax on guns will help end "carnage" on the streets of Chicago - where firearms now change hands for just $20.

There have now been more than 440 murders in Barack Obama's adopted home city so far this year, surpassing last year's total of 435.

Most involved gang shootings in the south and west of the city. It has been dubbed America's "murder capital" with a higher rate of killings than New York or Los Angeles.

Cook County, which takes in Chicago, has become the first place in the US to introduce a firearms tax.

Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St Sabina Church in the city's South Side, said the $25 levy is a start.

"Guns are causing carnage on our streets," he said.

"Anything that makes them harder to get hold of, no matter how small, is to be welcomed.

"We tax things like alcohol and cigarettes, but we haven't been taxing firearms.

"But I'd prefer if the tax was a lot higher, and if every single bullet was taxed."

A proposed tax of five cents per bullet was abandoned by Cook County because the tax would, in some cases, have exceeded the price of ammunition.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2012; banglist; chicago; democrats; democratutopia; illinois; taxes; uselessidiot
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To: Sub-Driver

Yep....the first 10,000 anti-gun laws were stupid. This one ought to do the trick. What gangbanger wants to pay that tax?


41 posted on 11/03/2012 2:40:35 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers

Liberals truly are mentally deranged.


42 posted on 11/03/2012 2:42:34 PM PDT by novascotianative
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To: Sub-Driver

“A leading anti-gun campaigner has told Sky News a new tax on guns will help end “carnage” on the streets of Chicago - where firearms now change hands for just $20.”

Mind boggling stupity! How many of these thugs buy their weapons from gun shops where they would have to pay the tax? Zilch, Zero, Nada. There are millions of guns available in the US and a tax in Chicago isn’t gonna stem the carnage one iota. Your wanna end the carage you gotta get rid of the thugs, not the guns. Start executing a few of the murdering thugs within a month of their murder trial. Now there’s some carnage for you. Better yet, just let the thugs keep executing each other. Give thugs a reward for executing another thug. Makes about as much sense that the anti-gun campaigner.


43 posted on 11/03/2012 2:45:50 PM PDT by ImNotLying (The MSM bears a close resemblance to the world's oldest profession!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Recommend they tax the air the gun owners/buyers breath too.


44 posted on 11/03/2012 2:47:44 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: ronnie raygun

Could make some good comedy skits out of this lunacy.


45 posted on 11/03/2012 2:52:28 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Sub-Driver

Maybe it will stem carnage. The state doubling taxes on the rich has gotten a lot of those people to move out of the state.


46 posted on 11/03/2012 3:15:35 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Sub-Driver

I yield to comments I saw earlier this week. There are many clever and verbally gifted individuals out there. I quote

“The stupid ...it burns!”


47 posted on 11/03/2012 3:19:44 PM PDT by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: Sub-Driver
Want to stop the carnage in Cook County? Allow the honest people to buy guns for defense. Then, make it an unlimited bag limit on thugs shot dead by the potential victims. The county can pick up the dead thugs and dump them in the county incinerator. When the thugs figure they may be on the endangered species list, they might stop with shooting up “da ‘hood”. Make it painful, dangerous, and deadly for thugs and you get their attention.
48 posted on 11/03/2012 3:59:06 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: BCR #226

“Anyway, that tax is illegal.”

Thank you. I was going to mention that I believe that taxing a constitutional right has been ruled illegal by the federal courts.

Taxing bullets, votes or words are equally anti-American.

If we can find a way to float Chicago to North Korea, I’ll chip in my meager carpentry skills for free.


49 posted on 11/03/2012 4:00:14 PM PDT by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: Sub-Driver
Cook County is the most corrupt place west of Port-a-Prince. This gun tax is just another rake-off.
50 posted on 11/03/2012 4:12:55 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: BobNative

Truly we are blessed.


51 posted on 11/03/2012 4:42:10 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St Sabina Church in the city’s South Side, said the $25 levy is a start.”

Pfleger in the news again, I see. Anyone else remember this event from 2008?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvYICKJ3TI


52 posted on 11/03/2012 4:54:16 PM PDT by DemforBush (100% Ex-Democrat.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I have an illlegal gun and I’m going to go pay a tax on it so “da man” will know I have it?

Dems are really dim.


53 posted on 11/03/2012 5:29:22 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: sergeantdave

It’s a good thing guns don’t move from town to town. /sarc


54 posted on 11/03/2012 6:06:52 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: Sub-Driver

If it’s a $20 gun, there’s a reason. It’s probably used in a crime and a real steal.


55 posted on 11/03/2012 9:14:17 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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To: Darren McCarty

its a rental fee, like they do in Jamaica.

you rent a piece from a posse, do your dirt, then return it.


56 posted on 11/03/2012 11:27:25 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (working at the car wash..working at the car wash now.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Chicagao, get out of the way. Arm righteous patriots and watch what happens.Take a lesson from Florida.


57 posted on 11/04/2012 2:01:55 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: sergeantdave
"...I'll chip in my meager carpentry skills for free."

May we assume these skills are meager enough that some 'minor leaking' may occur?

58 posted on 11/04/2012 4:42:37 PM PST by diogenes ghost
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To: Sub-Driver

you watch- they are goign to do to guns just what they did to smokers- make it so damn expensive that noone but the rich can afford it- the left IS attacking EVEY demographic they possibly can knowing that noone will ever stand up to it- sure, ther’ll be lots of yelling, but the left just keeps plowing ahead with hteir chicago tactics knowing thaqt there’s no real opposition- they bullied smokers and made it so expensive that many are goign broke because they are hooked to a drug more powerful than heroine, (yet amazingly, heroine addicvts get their fixes from uncle same free of charge) and now that htey got away with that- they are goign after fat people, junk food, guns, resteraunts etc etc etc


59 posted on 11/04/2012 9:26:31 PM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Sub-Driver; All

There isn’t a snowballs chance on Guam that this will stop the bloody minded savages that are the drug dealing gang bangers of Shitcago .

The politicians of that town know this & don’t give a damn cause folks with guns shoot gang bangers & make the Chicago PD look bad & by extension the whole City government .


60 posted on 11/05/2012 4:06:00 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner
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