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Posted on 06/05/2022 7:24:31 AM PDT by apillar
The recent violence is prompting one House Democrat to draft a measure aimed at severely restricting access to the AR-15-style weapons used by different gunmen in the carnage. Rep. Donald Beyer of Virginia, a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means panel, wants to impose a 1,000% excise tax on assault weapons.
New AR-15-style guns range from $500 to over $2,000 depending on location, NBC News reported. That means a 1,000% tax on the weapon would add $5,000 to $20,000 to their final sales price — and would probably keep it out of reach from many younger Americans.
That probable outcome prompted Beyer to eye reconciliation, the legislative tactic allowing proposed laws to bypass the Senate's 60-vote threshold known as the filibuster and pass with a simple majority. Democrats employed the maneuver in 2021 to push through the stimulus law and the House-approved Build Back Better bill over united GOP resistance.
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Much in the same way that Leftists pervert the "right" to housing and medical care by conflating the natural right to obtain each with the made-up right to get it for free.
The 1000% tax is a government act expressly desgined to restrict ownership and exercise of one's 2nd Amendment right.
The Democrat party must be destroyed.
End of argument right there.
Here in Maine, people engage in the private sales of firearms, including semi-automatic rifles.
You're confusing a poll tax as a mere tax and not a means of keeping people from voting completely.
I think we’ve been hearing that argument already.
Restrict ownership of one specific type, not guns completely. If the 1000% tax was applied to all firearms purchases then it would be an infringement of our 2nd Amendment rights.
SCOTUS will ultimately kick it to the curb.
But try they will.
By putting the equivalence of a poll tax on gun purchases. It has already been determined that excessive taxes on fundamental guaranteed rights is unconstitutional.
The tax is not on all firearms. The ability to purchase, keep, and bear firearms in general is not impaired, just one certain type. Poll taxes are designed to prevent certain citizens from voting altogether.
If it happens and it won’t, people will simply buy a different rifle. When will the Dems get it through their thick heads that an AR-15 is simply a style.
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It’s still an excwsive tax on a constitutional guaranteed right. I hate debating liberals!
Unintended Consequences
Is there anything that Democrats are likely to use that conservatives don’t? Tax the hell out of those things when we regain control.
the second amendment is not absolute...
biden said the quiet part out loud again.
Like having the greatest vote stealing operation ever.
Ought to just raise the tax to a Brazilian, yeah, that ought to do it!
Sell the receiver for $.01 with purchase of rest of rifle for $500.
[[Is there anything that Democrats are likely to use that conservatives don’t?]]
Contraceptives
I don’t think you under why pole taxes were declared unconstitutional.
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