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Dem Reps Sponsor Bill for 20 Percent Tax on Handguns
Breitbart ^ | 08/26/2013 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 08/26/2013 7:41:53 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Representative Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) are sponsoring legislation which amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include a 20 percent tax on handguns--"pistols [and] revolvers"--as well as a 50 percent tax on "shells and cartridges." The bill is H.R. 3018 and it is titled the "Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2013."

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: SailormanCGA72

It’s always been about raping those who can pay a little. Those politicians don’t give a damn who gets killed, who is a victim, who protects themselves or doesn’t. It’s the money.It will never be enough until the people actually do something about it. Rob those who can pay to buy the votes of the stupid and the entitlement crowd.


41 posted on 08/26/2013 8:29:32 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Dead Corpse

It is time to do just that.


42 posted on 08/26/2013 8:30:56 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Lazamataz

I doubt if it will go anywhere NOW, but what bothers me is that there are so many fools like this elected to office someday these bills could go somewhere.


43 posted on 08/26/2013 8:34:29 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

I don’t know why they even bother with a bill .... just tell the IRS to write another regulation .... that’s what Obama’s been doing with Obamacare ... just say it’s part of ‘health care’.


44 posted on 08/26/2013 8:35:16 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: Rusty0604

If the poll tax infringes on the right to vote, why do these taxes not infringe the right to bear arms?????

The Left is Evil


45 posted on 08/26/2013 8:36:55 AM PDT by RatRipper (The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
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To: driftdiver
Sounds like a poll tax

My thought exactly!

46 posted on 08/26/2013 8:37:16 AM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: staytrue

Why would you think that. Look at the cigarette, alcohol, and gasoline taxes we have.


They are not constitutionally protected rights.


47 posted on 08/26/2013 8:43:35 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Rusty0604

Really, I’m surprised it took this long for one of them to try this. Knowing they could never ban or take the guns away it was always easier just to price them out of existence.


48 posted on 08/26/2013 8:44:59 AM PDT by CPONuke
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To: Rusty0604

That would be a most blatant Infringement.


49 posted on 08/26/2013 8:48:19 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: CPONuke

Someone should arrest these anti-Constitution clowns. Didn’t these fools take an oath to defend the Constitution?????


50 posted on 08/26/2013 8:48:44 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: CPONuke

May 17, 2013

The California Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee recently approved a controversial new measure that places a 10 percent tax on all ammunition sold in California.


51 posted on 08/26/2013 8:49:58 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Sparticus

But, we had to pass a Constitutional Amendment (24th, 1964) to get rid of the Poll Tax.


52 posted on 08/26/2013 8:56:20 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: 4mer Liberal

Time to buy your reloader, dear, as well as stock up.


53 posted on 08/26/2013 9:04:58 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: Rusty0604

It’s against the law to encourage large numbers of people to break the law. Thus, it would be against the law to encourage a tax strike.

Nevertheless, I often wonder if, suppose, everyone were to claim ten dependents and thereby reduce withholding to a minimum and refuse to pay taxes would it starve the beast and swamp the enforcement authorities? Would there be a similar effort that could somehow starve the beast?


54 posted on 08/26/2013 9:12:09 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Rusty0604
Racial minorities, especially blacks, are disproportionately affected by violent crime. The first gun control laws were enacted so that poor blacks could not defend themselves against violent attacks.

Now these two racists want to make guns and ammo so expensive that poor minorities will not be able to afford to defend themselves. Somebody should report them to the Department of Justice.

55 posted on 08/26/2013 9:18:00 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Standing Wolf

Why let them live? They are enablers of monsters.


56 posted on 08/26/2013 9:21:57 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: muir_redwoods

I have to admit that I have done that and know other people that did. I leads to taxes, penalties, tax liens on property, wage garnishments, etc.


57 posted on 08/26/2013 9:34:52 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: cuban leaf

2nd amendment does not stop taxes on guns.


58 posted on 08/26/2013 9:38:35 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: Rusty0604

Darn! I’ve got to go out and buy a few!


59 posted on 08/26/2013 9:41:42 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: Rusty0604
The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.

"What a greater Joy did ever New England see
Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree"
.

Lt. Gov Hutchinson and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.

A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.

The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.

The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.

Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.

60 posted on 08/26/2013 10:02:37 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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