Posted on 09/11/2024 6:13:17 PM PDT by dynachrome
A YES vote on Proposition KK would mean: a new tax on firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, and using the revenue for crime victim services, mental health services for veterans and youth, and school safety programs.
A NO vote would mean: the state’s taxation of firearms and ammunition will not change.
A new ballot measure in November would create a 6.5% excise tax on firearm-related purchases within the State of Colorado. The ballot measure, titled Proposition KK, is the result of a bill that was signed into law in May of 2024, but because it deals with taxes, it must be decided by the voters.
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Frog, pot, boiling water.
That is a fine for a crime someone else committed.
Yes, and I hope it fails miserably.
If they were logical and rational (they aren’t) they would tax (confiscate) all assets from convicted criminals and just use that. Instead, they push this as part of their strategic plan to disarm the general citizenry - probably because they want to do things to the general citizenry for which the general citizenry would shoot them.
Another Leftist adventure into SCOTUS territory.
NOPE! (It’s still a Second Amendment violation.)
To imp!cement their communist government they need to disarm the citizens by any means possible. Even at action works at least to some extent.
In CO do the Venezuelan gangs and recent illegals have voter ID cards bestowed on them?
The stupid bastards also need to tax cars and gas and baseball bats and games. Hammers and nails, knives and tire irons.
LET US TAX ABORTIONS. FOR LIFE. FIGURE OUT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN TAX PAYER PUTS IN FOR LIFE AND TAX EACH ABORTION THAT MUCH. Yes I was screaming.
Me too, because it will spread...
I would argue that’s a violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause. You can’t take security away from one sector of the public and then award it to another.
NO! Tax blue and green hair dye or something.
Oregon went through worse than this with an initiative petition passed (barely) by the voters. The courts killed it.
Colorado gets this and they will refile in Oregon again. Then Ca, then Washington, then...
Unconstitutional for the same reason the government can’t put an excise tax on newspapers or CNN.
Pretty sure Oregon learned their lesson.
I hope so. :)
Convicts usually do not have any assets. You have to go where the money is. That is the law-abiding middle class.
CA Already has a 10% “excise” tax on ammo and Firearms courtesy ca dems as of july 2024….
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