[SheLion]

Singling out another group that chooses to purchase  another legal commodity.  Guns. 

They must have gone through the gun registrations and with their calculators, figured out how much more in tax money they could get by taxing hunters and gun owners.

Maine is well known for hunting.  Now this group is going to be on the 'hit list' next to carry the state budget.  I don't care what Augusta is saying these taxes will be used for.  It's easy to say what it will be used for, but once the tax is in place, the lawmakers will come up with other ways to spend this money and you can count on it.

I hope now that this will help wake up the people in Maine as to why smokers are so irate.  Maine smokers also suffer taxation without representation and someone who is the head of the rifle association in Maine better put a stop to this.

On the other hand, maybe you hunters can go ahead and pay the tax so they will leave the smokers alone!

 

[SheLion]

Ping for the Tax Comments. Can liquor in Maine be far behind???? Get ready!

[Muleteam1]

God I thank thee for giving my ancestors the wisdom to make a left turn when they got off the boat.

Muleteam1

[Shortwave]

My heart weighs so heavy trying to make it in Maine. I grew up here, made my life here, and chose to raise my children here. It has become a playground for the Massholes, the liberal scumbags, red diaper doper babies, and all their ilk. If anyone in this country wants to see what results when liberalism is left unchallenged, try opening a business in Maine.

I wish I had the President's optimism in that our best years are before us but I don't. We are losing jobs by the hundreds each month because of failed financial policies and the over taxation and red tape of business.

I've had many friends move away to the southern states to take work and leave Maine. I'm so saddened and at times it depresses the hell out of me. I'm a middle class Christian caught in a social experiment confined to the borders of this once proud state. Welfare, immigration, gay advocacy, environmentalist, anti-guns, war, Bush no-shaving lesbian NAGs, and it goes on and on.

Sorry about the rant. I sometimes think I should make a Public Service Announcement like the one in the 70's with the Indian standing on the highway, looking at the trash, turning to the camera with a tear in his eye. Just replace him with a white, straight, flannel shirted, male with a blaze orange hat and hunting rifle in hand and stand him on I-95 at the Kittery toll both as a Subaru goes by with a "rainbow" sticker in the rear window.

[VeniVidiVici]

"Imagine what has come through those doors during the more than 200 days when entry screening was not in place," she said last month.

Wow! Imagine what has come through those doors and nothing happened!

I think even the concept of stupidity is lost on the Democrats.

[ARCADIA]

The best thing about Maine is that we always have the option to make it part of Canada.

[School of Rational Thought]

They should tax something more relevant such as convict income.

Or increase court costs.

Increase annual attorney license fees

Fine the union for each incidence a weapon gets through and actually causes harm.

[SheLion]

When they are too gutless to cut spending, stick it to the gun owner's and tell them the safety taxes are for their own good. Heh!

[CSM]

"The 7 percent tax would be in addition to the 5 percent state sales......."

Is the 7% compounded on the 5% or additional to it. In other words, is the total tax 12% or 12.35%? I thought double taxation was illegal. Oh, yeah, I forgot about tobacco taxation policies that are applauded by so many freedom loving freepers.

[8mmMauser]

Awwww, noooo.... They will probably tax even more our ammo even if it uses "smokeless powder" We will have to get our black powder through the internet, maybe Yesshoot.cs or something.

[metesky]

1.) Why do they need anyone to run the metal detectors? Shouldn't they just respond with a loud screeching alarm?

2.) I hadn't realized Maine had such an epidemic of violence at its court houses. They don't? Never mind...

[8mmMauser]

Awwww, noooo.... They will probably tax even more our ammo even if it uses "smokeless powder" We will have to get our black powder through the internet, maybe Yesshoot.cs or something.

[metesky]

Pelletier-Simpson said that she chose to tax firearms rather than other potential weapons such as knives, because as a victim of domestic violence she believes guns are deadlier.

I guess hubby beaned her a little too hard with that set of encyclopedias. Must have been volume 7, "G".

[TC Rider]

How about a beer tax to cover the entire cost of the Highway Patrol, rehab centers, etc.

[Madame Dufarge]

Pelletier-Simpson said that she chose to tax firearms rather than other potential weapons such as knives, because as a victim of domestic violence she believes guns are deadlier.

Ah yes, another "victim." Let's make her personal experience the basis for public policy, it's only fair.

I don't suppose the idea that one of those deadly guns might make it possible for her to defend herself would ever enter her "mind."

[newsgatherer]

Thanks D, it will be in tommorrows issue. You know the d's are goiing nuts, they are doing, with the ample help of the rinos, some really nutty things.

Jake

[Sunshine Sister]

Soooooooooo..........how many people have been killed in the court house? I think it is telling that there are screams of angst about making a place safe that is already safe. I have not seen headlines about wholesale carnage in Maine courtrooms.

[drc43]

What part of "...Shall not be Abridged" do they not understand?

[ExpatGator]

Does anyone blame me for leaving Maine? Come to Missouri y'all, it's great. Taxes are lower, weather is better, people are friendlier, guns and ammo are cheaper, and there is a LOT less regulation. Plus you get to cower in fear from tornados every spring.

Maine is like living in a frozen, socialistic Scandinavian country, but without all the good looking blondes. Although, I must admit that I miss moose season.

[unixfox]

I think it would be "safe" to say that this tax will lead more people to dealing under the table. Therefore making illegal gun sales more attractive.

These people are soooooo smart aren't they?

[newsgatherer]

One of the alst stories in this weeks paper shows how off to the left baldacci and his minions and his ilk are:

Governor Baldacci of Maine post proposed legislation on homosexual website before State web site.
Citizen Alert Maine Christian Civic League by Tim Russell, Legislative Liaison

If you think Governor Baldacci is Governor of ALL the citizens of Maine, then write, call, e-mail him (and your legislators) asking why the full text of his "gay" rights bill is displayed, in its entirety, on the web site of the Maine Gay Lesbian Political Alliance (aka Equality Maine) and NOT on the State Web site for all citizens to read? Talk about your arrogance and elitism! The citizens of Maine must first go to a homosexual web site to read proposed legislation that will affect them and their children, before it is posted to the State's Web site.

As has been stated before, the Governor is supposed to represent all the people of Maine. As League President Rev. Dallas Henry said in the press recently, the Governor is really only interested in representing homosexuals. Rev. Henry says this clearly is the only logical conclusion an informed and fair minded person can form. ...