Seattle one vote away from tax on gun and ammunition sales (5 cents per round tax!!!!)

komonews.com ^ | Aug 5, 2015 at 5:19 PM PDT | Kristen Drew

[Ray76]

Exactly.

[From The Deer Stand]

Lucky is the person who owns a gun/ammo shop just outside the Seattle commie city limits.

[Darteaus94025]

How about a 5¢ tax on each movie ticket for each round fired in a movie?

50¢ movie ticket tax on every cigarette smoked in a movie?

[Vendome]

Fk that....

[pepsionice]

Sadly, there are roughly 30 shops within the city limits that deal in guns or ammo. I’d take a guess that each of the owners is sitting there and pretty frustrated. At some point, he’ll go rent a place just outside of the city limits and start to move his shop there. The city won’t care, but the regular sales tax that they were getting from before....is gone and won’t be returning. I will take a guess that with 30 shops...they were probably generating at least a million a year in tax revenue. So they’ve got a million less to deal with the cops, libraries, fire protection and homeless people.

I’d also make this observation. If they do it....at least fifty other communities will consider the same tactic by Christmas. It’ll be a trend. Eventually, some state will draft the tax. Oddly, more people die from cigarette smoking than bullets, so we ought to tax people 5 cents on each rolled smoke, if this all makes logical sense (which it doesn’t).

[Do_Tar]

You were being sarcastic about the cigarette tax, weren’t you?

Virginia is the lowest at $.30 per pack on up to New York at $4.35 per pack. NYC has an additional $1.50 per pack.
So in NYC you’re taxed almost $.30 per cigarette, plus sales tax. You’re even taxed on the taxes.

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/cigarette.pdf

[SaraJohnson]

Sounds like a poll tax. It’s heavy taxation in an effort to put the second amendment out of the reach of many Americans. Poor people deserve equal rights under the constitution to rich people. Maybe they are targeting Blacks?