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Posted on 08/27/2013 1:31:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ve never been a fan of any form of sin taxes, so called because our august lawmakers deem a particular behavior a vice and then try to ramp up the taxes on its perpetrators to supposedly pay for the cost of the behavior on society at large, but the idea that law-abiding, gun-owning citizens need to pay for the sins of what are overwhelmingly not law-abiding and probably not tax-paying criminals… really just takes the cake of stupid.
But no way is that stopping a couple of Congressional Democrats from fixing to propose even steeper taxes on the lawful purchasers of handguns and ammunition and supposedly funnel the revenue to ‘gun violence prevention.’ Via Fox News:
Called the “Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act,” the bill sponsored by William Pascrell, D-N.J., and Danny Davis, D-Ill., would nearly double the current 11 percent tax on handguns, while raising the levy on bullets and cartridges from 11 percent to 50 percent. …
The lawmakers say the bill would generate $600 million per year, which would be used to fund law-enforcement and gun violence prevention. …
The bill would also increase the transfer tax on all weapons (except antique guns) covered under the National Firearms Act (which excludes most common guns) from $200 to $500 and index to inflation and increase the transfer tax for any other weapon from $5 to $100. …
“This legislation is a pro-active approach to reducing gun violence by using proven preventive programs which have been starved for funds until now,” Davis said. “As part of a comprehensive, multidimensional strategy to reduce gun violence, this legislation closes major loopholes in tax law and lays out an equitable, long term, sustainable strategy to provide the requisite resources.”
Yes, by all means, let’s add yet another regressive barrier to home- and self-defense, so that even more people will be completely dependent on the police for protection, in order to help offset the costs of law enforcement! …Anyone? Anyone?
It’s no surprise that Davis represents a portion of Chicago, whose own “long term, sustainable strategy to provide the requisite resources” for violence prevention has been a direct cause of skyrocketing murder rates but still seems to insist for more gun control as the answer.
“...really just takes the cake of stupid.”
Aside from being both unconstitutional and, therefore, illegal.
But when has the constitution ever mattered to our congressional betters?
Not enough Democrats to get it even close.
ROFL!!!! Where have we heard bullshit like this before? (think - Tobacco taxes)
Democrats pushed the poll tax once upon a time too.
In the past it worked to defeat behavioral modification taxation by calling it “sin taxes.” This is fundalmentalist fanatics imposing their morals on the public. It is anti-American and anti-Constitutional to do that according to the communists (DNC).
Most ministers/churches are for liberalism’s sin taxes. Do an ad campaign with ministers and Christians all saying taxes on tabacco and guns as behavioral control, etc is holy. Plenty of left wing ministers, Rabbis and Imans would get their mugs on the camera if they thought it was supporting a liberal cause. Devil weed!
Devil butt action is the biggest health hazard and expense around. Tax butt f’ ing if sin tax is really for health care saving and not for moral high ground not for religious fanitics.
By some, do you mean more than 100 rounds?
When it is available we are limited to one box, sometimes they have a brick of 325, or 500, but no CCI stuff.
Very regressive, indeed. But they’re doing this to health care under the common folk radar, so action is needed.
Then we tax speech. Right?
.10 to .14 cents/round if you can find any in Hoosierland.
Tax out of buying them so they can purchase them and give them to the various branches of the Imperial Federal Government who have no need for weapons or ammo. Why the IRS or NASA or CDC needs guns and ammo to do their jobs is beyond me. I think it is building Obama’s private army within the government.
Got a box of 375 rounds, 22LR, CCI MiniMag (copper plated hollow points) for $23.99.
This would be a clear infingement of the right to keep and bear arms, just like if Republicans attempted to impose oppressive taxes on newspapers it would be an infringement of the right to freedom of speech.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
not surprised its their modern day version of a poll tax.
For me, this is the Tea Act.
Is it frying pan time again?
I propose it to be a sin tax to be a liberal democrat...
The revenue generated could be used to repay all the legal fees for conservative groups trying to get their 501c3 staus...
Retrograde genocide??? (snicker)
Brilliant!!! ;-)
They’d end up plucking that one hair anyway...
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