I have a better idea, tax rap CDs and Nike sneakers.
Posted on 01/11/2015 9:15:39 PM PST by smokingfrog
Earlier this week, the Missouri Legislature began its 2015 session which saw the introduction of House Bill 75. Introduced by state Representative Brandon Ellington (D-22), HB 75 seeks to impose an additional tax on all retail sales of handguns and ammunition in the state of Missouri in order to finance video cameras to be worn by uniformed law enforcement officers in the state.
Forcing law-abiding Missourians to pay an additional tax on firearm and ammunition purchases is unmerited. Gun owners and purchasers should not be responsible for funding these projects.
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It would make more logical sense to tax dhimmicrats since they are more responsible for crime.
A more appropriate tax would be a “convicted criminal tax” on convicted criminals, since these are the folks most likely to be photographed with the new police vid cams, and the reason the vid cams are needed in the first place.
Taxing law-abiding gun owners for this is nothing more than anti-gun attack on law-abiding gun owners.
A thug tax should fund it.
First they came for smokers to fund "healthcare" for the "churldren"...
Actually it would make more sense to tax criminals since they are the ones more likely to cause the need for these, then again maybe that is what you said.
Just another attack on law-abiding peasants by their Owners...
Sounds like an “infringement” to me.
If they’d made a tax that covered Lego blocks, coffee at airport shops in the state, massage parlors, and peanuts....then I might see adding the ammo tax on top so that everyone got into the ‘gimmick’.
What I think that few people have realized from this cam-gimmick...is that when you come back off duty and download....you need a massive RAID system and a back-up program, with real IT guys involved. Just for one state, the yearly maintenance and recycling program could add up easily to ten million (if you did it on the cheap). None of this is low cost.
Punishing the legal law abiders. Amazing
Typical commie rat bastard.There, I fixed it for ya.
I have a better idea, tax rap CDs and Nike sneakers.
If they were serious about getting such money from the people who make cops’ lives more dangerous,
every court conviction would include such a fee for violent felons included in their court costs.
I have a cheaper idea paid for by the state employees insurance. A Spine transplant for the governor, some mayors, and police chiefs, who stand by with their heads....... while taxpayers businesses are looted then burn to the ground by Thugs wanting their free stuff.
How about a tax on, oh, say, loose beers, instead. That way the demographic that requires the most policing pays for the cameras.
“Sounds like an “infringement” to me.”
It’s more than that. The guarantee of one’s Constitutional rights is not subject to taxation. This would be no different that one’s right to vote depending on the payment of a poll tax.
Excellent point!
The use and employment of these body cameras is going to come to an end. Not sure when, but they will. There are all sorts of issues with them, with regards to who is being filmed. Do they run all shift or do the officers turn them on and off. When does the officer decide to turn it on or off. There are tons of arguments and that are even more questions raised when it comes time to go to court. But, one of the biggest issues is, how in the world are they going to store all that data in a cost effective and efficient manner. I know some folks that are in on the Testing/Evaluation stages of them in Atlanta. Aside from the Constitutional issues, they have no idea how to pay for and manage all that data.
“...HB 75 seeks to impose an additional tax on all retail sales of handguns and ammunition in the state of Missouri in order to finance video cameras to be worn by uniformed law enforcement officers in the state. ...
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Wouldn’t it make more sense to tax “Temporary” Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits? Sons of recipients of these benefits (aka “sons of Obama”) disproportionately make up most of the offenders who will be recorded by these cameras.
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