Posted on 08/09/2015 7:53:43 PM PDT by Zakeet
There isn’t a far-left issue that the Seattle City Council hasn’t passed or considered passing. So you just knew that they would get around to screwing gun owners in some novel and inventive way.
How about a $25 tax on every firearm sold? Add to that a 5 cent tax on every cartridge and you have the typical liberal assault on law-abiding gun owners.
But that’s only part of the package. There’s also a provision to require gun owners to report the theft or loss of any firearm within 24 hours.
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The tax is expected to bring $300-500,000 a year to city coffers
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Sounds like a poll tax to me!
Poll taxes are illegal because you cannot tax someone for exercising their RIGHT to vote. Taxes on firearms and ammunition should be abolished because you can’t LEGALLY tax someone’s RIGHT to keep and bear arms.
We all know this is about pushing firearms out of Seattle. The schmucks are not going to collect any tax revenue from this.
These idiots are hurting the poor the most. I guess the poor shouldn’t be able to defend themselves.
That is what they do every time with their unfounded policies.
This will do exactly jack and ____ to reduce gun violence in Seattle. They need to focus on their massive drug problem. That will actually accomplish something.
This just in, new tax proposal to stem prostitution and venereal disease in Seattle.
Seattle to tax a woman’s vg annually $25 dollars and 5 cents on every tampon/pad or douche.
It is hoped this will prevent more women from engaging in prostitution.
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