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Bullet tax proposal is new twist in gun-control debate
gopusa.com ^
| December 29, 2012
| Stateline
Posted on 12/29/2012 6:11:49 PM PST by vet7279
"The Hartford Courant reported last week that two Democratic legislators were proposing a new 50 percent tax on bullets as part of a broader gun-control bill. The Connecticut legislation is one sign that the gun-control debate that the shootings will prompt next year in statehouses around the country could morph into an ammunition-control debate, too."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: ammunition; antigun; banglist; democrats; guncontrol; secondamendment; tax
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Heads up - They are going to try every angle....
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:12:00 PM PST
by
vet7279
To: vet7279
No, it's not.
It's all been tried before.
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:20:38 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism." --Vladimir Lenin)
To: vet7279
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:22:12 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: vet7279
Yep, this will really solve the problem. I am sure the bad guys who shoot people and commit robberies with stolen guns will be really upset when they run out of stolen ammo and make a quick stop at Walmart only to find out they have to pay extra money.
Politicians are not only insane, they are stoopid!
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:31:31 PM PST
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: vet7279
Politician buffoonery creating yet another black market. The Mexican smugglers will love this one.
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:34:05 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Where can I pick up a 2013 Mayan calendar?)
To: vet7279
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:37:43 PM PST
by
Wiggins
To: vet7279
Bullets are to cartridges as flour is to bread, as cement is to concrete, etc. When will they ever learn?
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:41:16 PM PST
by
Buffalo Head
(Illigitimi non carborundum)
To: vet7279
Oh and adding a hefty tax on tobacco has worked so well to get people to get smoking too.
Freaking idiots!
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:43:24 PM PST
by
diverteach
(If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
To: diverteach
It is not a tax, it is a revenue enhancement... /s
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posted on
12/29/2012 6:47:00 PM PST
by
vet7279
To: Husker24
same-same, 50% is 50%...
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posted on
12/29/2012 7:14:49 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
Ohh I misread it, I thought it said.50 cents.
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posted on
12/29/2012 7:23:17 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: vet7279
The bullet tax is nothing new. It has been proposed many times before.
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posted on
12/29/2012 7:30:27 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The one thing that Hollywood gets right about guns is that crminals will always get them.)
To: Husker24
per box would be one thing, per round, that WOULD be rough...
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posted on
12/29/2012 7:34:43 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Grams A
Yep, taxes will solve all crime problems.
And we all know that when people get elected to office they automatically
become 1000 times smarter than those who elected them to office.
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posted on
12/29/2012 7:37:14 PM PST
by
MaxMax
(Gun free zones was the invitation to gun bans)
To: vet7279
Saw it coming. So sad. Too late “COMRADE”.
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posted on
12/29/2012 7:40:19 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(I did not vote for 0bama, someone else did that!)
To: vet7279
Gun control does not equate to crime prevention, only revenue. It's called control.
The laws to prevent crime are already there, and people will break those laws.
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posted on
12/29/2012 7:48:51 PM PST
by
MaxMax
(Gun free zones was the invitation to gun bans)
To: vet7279
“Truth is stranger than fiction”
Chris Rock on making every bullet cost $5,000.00:
“If every bullet cost five thousand dollars, there would be no more `innocent bystanders’”.
“Dude musta did something, they put fifty thousand dollars worth of bullets in his @ss!”
“And people would think twice! “I would blow your f***ing head off....if I could afford it! I’m gonna get me another job, start saving some money, and you’re a dead man!”
Oh well, got to laugh at something in a world gone mad.
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posted on
12/29/2012 7:56:27 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: vet7279
Why doesn’t the Connecticut legislature simply levy a 500% tax on every Connecticut manufactured Colt AR-15 sold for the commercial market?
Why don’t these gun grabbers put their money where their mouths are?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Right. This idea was waved around when Clinton was POTUS.
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posted on
12/29/2012 8:05:12 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: vet7279
But what if I make my own bullets? (...when I’m not tending the still, of course.)
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posted on
12/29/2012 8:06:34 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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