Senator Perata Proposes Nickle Tax on Bullets

KTVU/Fox2 News ^ | 3/28/02 | Randy Shandobil

[Joe Hadenuf]

Plus, gunpowder itself will soon be banned for private purchase as "bomb making material".

Tic tic tic.....

[Travis McGee]

No doubt.

[The Real Deal]

Brellium has been a member here since 3/19/2002. He probably got lost on his way to the DNC.

[PRND21]

Bump

[gc4nra]

You hit the nail on the head. I'm a Respiratory Therapist at an L.A. area hospital, I see it every day. The worst part is, it is against state law for medical personnel to turn them in here in Kali.

[Buckeroo]

I wish I had a nickel. Normally these "taxes" mushroom to more political pork-fat. I wish I had a dollar.

[abigail2]

Thanks for the flag. I heard about this outrageousness!! And of all the times he could suggest this!! What a traitor.

[gc4nra]

That's a toss up! MD or CA hmmmmm, better weather in CA and when you get out of L.A. or S.F. it's mostly conservative.

Trying to talk my wife into Idaho for retirement. Her sister is in Hailey, but she doesn't like the cold.

[gc4nra]

I agree. Almost Hog feedin' time!

[The Real Deal]

How about a tax on abortion?

That won't work because abortions are paid for with tax dollars. How about a 1 million dollar a week tax on all DNC leaders. Then we could have all the guns and ammo we wanted to carry, and no abortions. We could tax the DNC out of being.

[gc4nra]

According to KABA and Gun Truths, he does. See post one.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

You can bet they'll be adding an item for the inspectors
to look for at the bug stations.
produce, flowers, and full metal jackets.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Bullets cause injuries that are expensive to treat and generally speaking, the public is footing the bill." (Cal. state senator Don Perata, quoted on KTTVU)

It's a damn good thing he hasn't heard of cars or fatty foods yet. (Or was Perata the jerk who proposed a fast-food tax over its fat content causing heart disease?)

Could you imagine what kind of tax Perata would want on cars - over all car-related police, EMT, and hospital costs?

Scandals of antigun politicians - Perata included!

[gc4nra]

"Just think gc, with a 25 cent per bullet rebate, you could quit your day job! LOL"

? It would be like hitting the lottery! LOL!

[GailA]

Thanks

Your bullet tax is a miss placed idea.

Better you place an additional tax on condoms. After all sex causes MILLIONS in MEDICAL bills a year, not to mention it swells the welfare rolls.

Also while your at it KEEP your criminals locked up. Each year the government releases to parole and probation hundreds of thousands of inmates. Guess what 62.5% go out and commit more crimes including homicides.

A 1991 parole and probation report from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 45% of State prisoners were persons who, at the time they committed their offense, were under conditional supervision in the community--either on probation or on parole. Probation and Parole Violators in State Prison, 1991: Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991 http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/ppvsp91.txt

Based on the offense that brought them to prison, the 162,000 probation violators committed at least 6,400 murders, 7,400 rapes, 10,400 assaults, and 17,000 robberies while under supervision in the community an average of 17 months. Based on the offense that brought parolees back to prison, these 156,000 offenders committed at least 6,800 murders, 5,500 rapes, 8,800 assaults, and 22,500 robberies while under supervision in the community an average of 13 months.

That’s 13,200 homicides, 12,900 rapes, 19,200 assaults, and 39,500 robberies for a total of 84,800 violent crimes that would NOT have been committed if these UNREGISTERED, UNLICENSED government supervised felons had been in prison where they belonged.

Better yet you DUMB politicians who keep letting criminals out early and putting them on probation instead of locking them up or executing them, ought to be taxed $2.7 Million dollars each for every criminal you let out of prison early on parole or place on probation to offset the 13,200 homicides and the 12,900 rapes committed by UNLICENSED, UNREGISTERED, GOVERNMENT SUPERVISED CONVICTED FELONS.

Mother of a Child MURDERED by one of those placed on probation,

Gail Keasling

[gc4nra]

If this goes thru I'm gonna have to buy buy a .50 so I can get my moneys worth!

[gc4nra]

You go, Girl! Are you a Liberty Belle?? If not you should be.

[Born to Conserve]

How about taxing internet forums at 5 cents per word?

If they're taxing the right to bear arms, why not the right to free speech?

[Myrddin]

There may be an unintended consequence lurking in this stupid "bullet tax". A box of 50 .44 Mag goes for $15. A box of 500 .22 goes for $10. Add the "bullet tax" and the .44 Mag costs $17.50. The brick of .22 goes for $35. The center fire rounds cost 17% more. The .22 costs 250% more. Perhaps this will fuel sales for more center fire handgun ammo. Exactly the opposite of what Perata thinks this stupid tax will accomplish. It should also be pointed out that this tax disproportionately affects the poor who only have enough disposable income to shoot .22.

Perata's continuing onslaught of anti-gun laws is one of many reasons I left California for Idaho. Many of my high tech colleagues like to shoot as well. I may yet have a means of encouraging the growth of a high tech sector in my little town in Idaho.

[Sigarmed]

Perata is a walking talking peice of crap! This guy is a socialist traitor and he should be booted out of office immediately. I just wish it was easier done than said. This guy needs to be treated like Gary Condit. I bet it might even be the answer to the problem.