Posted on 03/23/2017 12:34:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Seattle’s tax on the sale of firearms and ammunition raised less than $200,000 during its first year, according to Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess.
The city is using the tax to support gun-violence research at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. But the city isn’t spending the money until a 2015 lawsuit challenging the tax is resolved.
Burgess spearheaded the tax, which was adopted by the council in 2015 and took effect Jan. 1, 2016.
When Burgess proposed the tax, he said the city’s budget office had estimated it would raise $300,000 to $500,000 a year.
Though the money from the tax isn’t being used, the research it’s intended to pay for is moving ahead, with $275,000 that the council allocated for 2016 and 2017 coming out of the city’s general fund.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
$200,000 won’t buy the City Leaders many hookers or much crack. They’re going to have to think up something else
I wonder how much of the $200,000 is from government purchases (such as police) or are they exempt?
Duh.
Just drive a little and save a lot.
LOL!
I knew they couldn’t hide their abject failure forever.
Probably costs more to administer than it takes in.
If I lived in Seattle, I would pay $50 in gas to avoid $25 in gun/ammo taxes . . . and then I’d quadruple my ammo purchase because of the overhead cost.
That is because everyone went to Spokane or Idaho to buy their guns and ammo.
Black markets are a truly amazing tool.
Just sayin’.
That is good to know. I do forget that WA State has plenty of Small Conservative towns like yours dainbramaged. :)
I always sort of preferred Cabela's selection here in KC to Bass Pro. But since the merger the point is sort of mute.
Cabela's had a wider range of firearms in my opinion.
“Tacoma has a brand new Bass Pro Shops store...”
And about the same distance north is a fairly new Cabellas.
Anybody in that area want to take up the challenge?
Are you stuck in Western Wa. DB? Sorry to hear that if you are! Any chance of escape soon!?
Yeah, born and raised within 30 miles of my current home - spent 25 years in Alaska, retired early and moved back to Western WA in 2006. My Dad’s family came here from Tennessee around 1900. We are out in the sticks on wooded acreage in a blue collar rural area which voted for Trump, nothing like Havana on the Sound (Seattle).
Oh, good. Then Harborview Medical Center in Seattle won't need any other federal funding, since they've developed their own local sources.
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