Posted on 01/29/2016 8:45:19 AM PST by Iron Munro
Here's an idea.
If we can't outlaw guns or confiscate them, tax them.
Make it a law to register everyone's guns and then charge a tax yearly for each one of them.
Slowly raise the taxes every year (due to an increasing bureaucracy to handle the paperwork) so they become too expensive to own.
When and if the taxes are overdue, take out a lien on the guns and foreclose on them.
Hold them until exorbitant taxes, storage and lawyer fees (more than the gun is worth) are paid.
If not paid in a timely fashion, they will be destroyed.
If a gun is not registered to be taxed it will be confiscated because it was not reported, not because it is illegal to own.
Fines and back taxes will have to be paid to get the weapon back.
If not paid in a timely fashion, they will be destroyed.
A certificate must be attached to every single weapon to prove the yearly tax has been paid.
Greg Olson
Tampa
Of course, we first have to outlaw any newspaper with more than ten pages. That's an assault paper.
Remember, printing presses are the tools of counterfeiters, child pornographers, and seditionary libelists and traitors. Besides, the First Amendment only protects the free press, like the internet. These criminal printers are just in it for the money, so when you tax them, remember to not only hit the sale price of their filth, but their advertising revenue as well. They use it to buy votes, too, and that.s also against the law.
interesting way to put it.
I pride myself on brevity and directness.
IIRC, there was already an attempt to tax newspaper (or was it ink?) that was struck down on unConstitutional grounds. Which prompts me to ask; why hasn’t there been a class action lawsuit brought against ammo taxes, sales taxes on firearms (and accessories), reloading equipment taxes, and sundry other infringements?
And salt.
“Which prompts me to ask; why hasn’t there been a class action lawsuit brought against ammo taxes, sales taxes on firearms (and accessories), reloading equipment taxes, and sundry other infringements?”
Reasonable taxes on those things are acceptable to the courts. They become unacceptable when they are raised to a very high levels. In the example I provided, you can tax adult movies but not at a level exceeding the taxes on other movie rentals.
"Reasonable" infringements. They make it have such a nice ring to it... Parallel to "Common sense gun Control"?
The whole reason for this thread is can the government tax ammunition sales to make it unaffordable. Pretty much the same thing for the 1st amendment. You can put a sales tax on a newspaper as long as it’s reasonable, equally applied, and not designed to make newspapers unaffordable.
What part of “shall not be infringed” don’t you understand?
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