Posted on 04/19/2016 4:09:50 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Steep gun tax concept endorsed by Hillary Clinton in 1993 beginning to take hold
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A $1,000 per gun tax should serve as a “role model” for states, according to the governor of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, which imposed the $1,000 gun tax earlier this month. An idea first endorsed by Hillary Clinton in 1993, steep gun taxes have now taken hold in Cook County, Ill. the city of Seattle, and now a U.S. territory.
As reported by the Saipan Tribune:
The administration of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres defended the CNMI’s new gun control laws on Friday as a law that could be “a role model” for other U.S. states and jurisdictions facing seemingly uncontrolled and continued gun violence.
The administration was responding to queries regarding its position on recent reports that the a legal challenge to the new law, Public law 19-42, was likely, particularly over a provision that assesses a $1,000 excise tax on pistols.
The threat of such a tax serving as a role model for other politicians to impose is not an idle one. Consider the following:
Seattle Gun and Ammunition Tax: On Jan. 1, 2016, Seattle’s $25 per gun tax took effect, as did a two cent to five cent tax per round of ammunition. The new taxes have already forced at least one major gun dealer to leave the city.
Cook County, Ill. Gun and Ammunition Tax: On June 1, 2016, Cook County’s new ammunition tax takes effect, at a rate of one cent to five cents per round of ammunition. The ammo tax comes on top of the existing gun tax regime of $25 per gun.
Hillary Clinton’s 25% Gun Tax Endorsement: In passionate testimony to the Senate Finance Committee in 1993, Hillary Clinton gave her strong personal endorsement to a new national 25% sales tax on guns and endorsed a steep increase in the gun dealer fee, to $2,500. "I am speaking personally, but I feel very strongly about that,” said Clinton at the conclusion of her endorsement.
“The Left is now seeking to tax guns out of existence,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. “The Second Amendment makes it difficult to legally ban guns, but Hillary has led the way to explaining you can achieve the same thing with high taxes.”
In newly released footage from Americans for Tax Reform, Clinton is shown nodding enthusiastically as she endorsed the 25% gun tax and as legal gun dealers were described as “purveyors of violence.”
(Watch Hillary's face as she endorses a 25% gun tax available at link)
See more at:
www.HighTaxHillary.com
These 'Progressives' (newspeak for communist nation destroyers) need to be removed from any seat of power, including the SCOTUS)as they represent a constant danger to the well being of this nation.
Democrats clearly wage war against women and against those in live in poorer neighborhoods!
The same applies to a Federal Excise Tax on Ammunition.
Sounds good, as long as we also have a $1000 vote tax.
we should push for a 10,000 ‘excise tax’ on abortion - see how they like it
Can we levi a $1,000.00 vote tax?
Just use the same arguments the libs use for voter ID....
Clearly what needs to be accomplished is prosecution of politicians that proposein laws that violate the constitution.
I’m in favor of not only a poll tax, but an IQ test for all voters. Those who score under 100 may never vote and if they don’t own their residences they are banned from voting on property tax issues.
The idea here is to make it so only politicians, lawyers, and celebrities can afford to own guns. Make no mistake, lawsuits against manufacturers of guns and ammo is coming soon.
Should be “are” coming soon.
If this ever comes to pass, I have a hunch there is going to be a rash of boating incidents in which multiple firearms were lost.
Sound good if only GUN OWNERS vote. If you don’t own a gun you don’t get the right to vote. Obviously we are paying for it.
Once Witch Hazel gets in the White house, you can kiss your guns good bye.
she will never be allowed the job
The islanders would vote that in in a heartbeat. They still long for the return in popularity of spam as they elect the island elite to stand over them with guns keeping them all safe and in line. Its all they have known for centuries.
So goes the Northern Marianas.........
Just like a poll tax was the answer to “uppity n-ggers” trying to exercise their Constitutional right to vote.
Onerous taxation on firearms has the same effect as forbidding their ownership, and consequently evinces a de facto abrogation of the Second Amendment.
So just as poll taxes were struck down, so would this be.
That is, if reason applies to our judiciary any more.
LIBs are incessantly pursuing their malignant goals through idiocy. These fascists need to be “educated”. Their time is fast approaching.
I agree. And the learning curve ain’t gonna be pretty.
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