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Seattle gun store owner moving because of new tax
AP ^ | Jan. 6, 2015

Posted on 01/06/2016 9:34:01 AM PST by PROCON

SEATTLE (AP) - The owner of one of Seattle's few gun stores says he's moving his business to avoid paying a new tax.

The Seattle Times reports (http://bit.ly/1TEelfU ) that the city tax on firearm and ammunition sales took effect January 1. Precise Shooter owner Sergey Solyanik says he stopped selling guns and ammo in Seattle and is already close to signing a lease in Lynnwood.

(Excerpt) Read more at yakimaherald.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: banglist; bluezones; gunstore; seattle; taxandspend
The City Council voted unanimously in August to tax gun sellers $25 per gun and 2 or 5 cents per round of ammunition. Councilmember Tim Burgess said it would raise thousands of dollars for gun violence research and prevention.

Actually, you moron, it isn't going to raise squat.

The gun store owner is moving a mere few miles north and will reopen.

Seattle will lose tax revenue.

A typical result of liberalism.

1 posted on 01/06/2016 9:34:01 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

If I were the owner in a new location, I’d impose an additional “stupid tax” on Seattle-proper residents. They have to be made aware of what their liberal government is doing to their freedom. Either fight back, or move.


2 posted on 01/06/2016 9:39:07 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: PROCON

3 posted on 01/06/2016 9:41:06 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: PROCON

Councilmember Tim Burgess said it would raise thousands of dollars for gun violence research and prevention.

Apparently the barbarian council member has never heard the Cain and Abel story.


4 posted on 01/06/2016 9:46:49 AM PST by RideForever (OldMainframer)
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To: PROCON; MeganC; Crazieman; Army Air Corps; Norm Lenhart; TADSLOS; SkyDancer; dainbramaged
NO! No Moving!

Seattle Loves Communism so much, The Soviet Republic should build a WALL to keep people in so they can enjoy the fruits of their socialist labor.

To each according to his need, from each according to his ability. Which I Still don't understand that phrase by the way

5 posted on 01/06/2016 9:49:47 AM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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Well, there is that eerily Directive 10-289ish idea being floated about restricting companies from moving overseas for tax purposes.


6 posted on 01/06/2016 9:51:19 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: KC_Lion

Never try understanding insanity. It will consume you.


7 posted on 01/06/2016 9:52:05 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: KC_Lion

I’m just amused that the libloons of Seattle even allowed a gun store to be conducting business within its city limits.


8 posted on 01/06/2016 10:00:56 AM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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Believe it or not, Seattle was a bastion of conservatism until around 1980.

Liberalism infects almost everything.

9 posted on 01/06/2016 10:07:12 AM PST by PROCON
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To: KC_Lion

It means you have to work so other people don’t have to.


10 posted on 01/06/2016 10:11:02 AM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: PROCON

Gun violence research?

LOL! What the heck is there to research?


11 posted on 01/06/2016 10:12:18 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama = ISIS Fanboy)
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The liberals jumping with glee over the owner moving out ... but wait ... Seattle was counting on that tax revenue already budgeted ... oops.


12 posted on 01/06/2016 10:17:56 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: MeganC

It means you have to work so other people don’t have to.

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13 posted on 01/06/2016 3:22:57 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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