California Lawmakers Consider Bullet Tax

FOX ^ | 4/5/02 | Adam Housley

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

For lawmakers on the West Coast, the sound of gunfire may as well be money in the bank since a Democratic legislator has proposed a tax on bullet sales.

Emergency rooms and trauma centers across the country are facing budget crunches, and state Sen. Don Perata said the tax on bullets would make up for the cost of treating injuries from gunshot wounds.

[facedown]

Emergency rooms and trauma centers across the country are facing budget crunches, and state Sen. Don Perata said the tax on bullets would make up for the cost of treating injuries from gunshot wounds.

Right. Not a dime will go to trauma centers anymore than any of the tobacco settlement money went to smoking prevention programs.

The money will simply go to more "buy the vote" social programs.

[HELLRAISER II]

You know I believe that Local & Federal Legislators have forgotten about the American Revolution & what it was fought over, unfair Tariffs & Taxation. At times I wonder just how much more the American people will take of this Bull$hit.

[LetsRok]

This reminds me of the Chris Rock joke that to deter gun violence the states should make a bullet cost $5000 each. That way criminals would not be able to go on shooting sprees and they would think twice whether the person they were about to shoot was worth $5000.

[Minnesoootan]

I don't here anything about a tax on bulk powder and lead....goofy politicians!

[Phantom Lord]

Local talk show host Jerry Agar (Raleigh NC) last year did a bit on his radio show in connection with the democrats demands in our state that taxes be raised to balance the budget. His idea was for callers and emailers to send him things that "liberals like and use" that we could tax.

I'm gonna start a thread...

[Piquaboy]

Maybe they are planning on making safer bullets with that tax money.

[Phantom Lord]

Here it is...

With Budget shortfalls in many states, liberals are lookin to raise taxes. Lets give them some ideas

[SheLion]

Ahhhh.....Gov. Davis leading the way......again!

[knarf]

"With the bullet tax, Perata said the financial burden shifts from the state to gun users."

Yo, Vinny ... you got the piece?
Yeah, butcha' gutta' be careful about how many times ya hit 'im. Try t' do it in jus' one.
Hey man, I can shoot, y'know.
Yeah, I know, butcha' gutta be careful ... this could cost us an extra dime if y' miss.
Man, you th' one that needs a clip ... I'm down.
OK, jus' do it right the first time.

[Gritty]

Emergency rooms and trauma centers across the country are facing budget crunches

If you want to find the real villian of the "budget crunches", look no further than the waves of illegal immigrants getting care and then walking out, or the indigent getting "free" care, as required by law, or the drugged out getting life-saving services on the hospital's dime. These places have become free health clinics for freeloaders, not emergency rooms. The rest of us pick up the bill in one way or another.

Now, these miserable, self-serving politicians want to shift the costs directly onto legitimate gun owners?

I say tax the politicians personally for allowing this state of affairs to flourish! And while we're at it, throw them out of office so they have to get real jobs, and pay their own medical bills instead of dreaming up new ways to evade their own responsibilities in the process, while simultaneously beating up on honest gun-owning citizens.

[TheDon]

Actually, this tax will raise little to no revenue. What it will do is force more business out of state. There are plenty of other states to purchase ammo from. I already buy my ammo from www.ammoman.com in NJ.

[lepton]

Assuming they actually apply the money to the tramau centers, it'll take how many legally fired bullets to be fired to pay for the one they're complaining about?

[hattend]

I have a gif (might be a jpg) of Perata's request for a CCW. Who wants to put it on a website so we can show it here...I'll send it to you, just freepmail me.

[Joe Hadenuf]

BUMP*

If you want to find the real villian of the "budget crunches", look no further than the waves of illegal immigrants getting care and then walking out, or the indigent getting "free" care, as required by law, or the drugged out getting life-saving services on the hospital's dime. These places have become free health clinics for freeloaders, not emergency rooms. The rest of us pick up the bill in one way or another.

[William Tell]

This outrage provides a whole new meaning to the phrase "drop a dime" on your local legislator.

[Rifleman]

This proposal has nothing to do with revenue or emergency rooms. Its purpose and motivation is exactly the same as that of the Nazi Nuremburg Laws...to oppress the target group. Jews in the case of the Nazis, gun owners in the case of Perata and his scum allies.

A professional armed robber or dope dealer might expend a box of rounds in a lifetime of crime, tax $2.50. A even the most casual shooter will expend 10,000 rounds in a lifetime, some people I know of shoot that many in a month. So criminals who actually cause the problem pay a couple of bucks and law abiding shooters pay $500 to thousands of dollars. What a terrific idea. If your purpose is to oppress gun owners.

[lepton]

A professional armed robber or dope dealer might expend a box of rounds in a lifetime of crime, tax $2.50. A even the most casual shooter will expend 10,000 rounds in a lifetime, some people I know of shoot that many in a month. So criminals who actually cause the problem pay a couple of bucks and law abiding shooters pay $500 to thousands of dollars. What a terrific idea. If your purpose is to oppress gun owners.

Exactly what I was clumsily trying to relay.

[1Old Pro]

Liberals have never seen a tax they didn't like.

Related: "OPEN SPACE" TAXES. Has your town taxed you yet to "preserve" open space-