Urgent! CA Ammo Tax Bill Hearing 6/5/02

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FULL CA ALERT - www.calnra.org -
Ammo Tax Bill Hearing 6/5/02
*****URGENT*********

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SCA 12 The Ammunition Tax Bill which will impose a 5
cents tax on ammunition will be heard by the Senate
Health and Human Services Committee on Weds. June 5.
WE MUST STOP THIS BILL NOW and ONLY YOU CAN MAKE IT
HAPPEN. At a minimum PLEASE FAX AND CALL the
DEMOCRATS AND VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION TO THIS BILL. If
you cannot do this you can leave a message for the
committee at (916) 445-5965.

Many people have asked us if this bill includes
taxing components and the answer is YES (see below
quotations from the bill)

***SCA 12 (Perata) If passed by 2/3 vote in both houses,
this bill would place on the November ballot an
initiative to tax every round of ammunition or on
bullet components sold separately at a rate of $.05
each, or $2.50 for the average box of 50 rounds.
Health and Human Services Committee hearing June
5th. OPPOSE!!!

"(1) For the privilege of selling munitions at
retail there is hereby imposed a tax upon all
retailers at the rate of 5 cents ($0.05) for each
munition sold at retail in this state on or after
January 1, 2003."

"For purposes of this section, "munition" means a
projectile with its fuse, propelling charge, or
primer fired from a weapon, or any of the individual
components thereof. "

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Senate Health and Human Services Committee -(12)

Deborah Ortiz (Chair) DEM - 916-324-4937, Fax: 916-327-8754

Ray Haynes (Vice Chair) Rep - (916) 445-9781, Fax: (916) 447-9008

Jim Battin - Rep - (916)-445-5581, Fax: (760) 568-1501

Wesley Chesbro - Dem - 916-445-3375, Fax: 916-323-6958

Martha Escutia - Dem - 916-327-8315, Fax: 916-327-8755

Liz Figueroa - Dem - 916-445-6671, Fax: 916-327-2433

Sheila Kuehl - Dem - 916-445-1353, Fax: 916-324-4823

Bill Morrow - Rep - 916-445-3731, Fax: 760-445-3731

Richard Polanco - Dem - 916-445-3456, Fax: 916-445-0413

Gloria Romero - Dem - 916-445-1418, Fax: 916-445-0485

John Vasconcellos - Dem - 916-445-9740, Fax: 916-324-0283

Edward Vincent - Dem - 916-445-2104, Fax: 916-445-3712

Staff Director: John Miller. Consultants: Ana Matosantos, Andrea Margolis, Sara McCarthy and Nicole
Vazquez . Assistant: Amofia Moe" Katsimbras. Phone: (916) 445-5965 Room 2191.
Sorry I didn't have time to program html for the links! Jolynne

[goldstategop]

Let's tax twinkies before we tax ammo.

[Glenn]

Let's tax twinkies before we tax ammo.

What does it matter the order in which things get taxed? They'll both get taxed eventually.

[Sigarmed]

I bought a new fax machine yesterday just to make sure all the victim disarmament lawmakers in California get my letter and in case my call doesn't get through. I can't imagine they would throw a document away.
Heck I can fax as many copies as I want. :-)
I just wish every gun owner in California would do the same because the leftists in California wouldn't get away with it.

[dpwiener]

It's not that I want to discourage anyone from contacting their legislators in Sacramento, but realistically this bill isn't going anywhere. Don Pereta and other anti-gun Democrats are posturing with this, because the state budget crisis is forcing the them to reign in their spending spree. So they have to fall back on symbolic gestures to appease their liberal constituencies.

But it takes a 2/3 vote in both houses to put a tax increase like this on the ballot, and the Republicans alone have enough votes to block it. Plus there are several Democrats who know better than to support it.

Besides, the Democrats don't really want this on the November ballot. It would be a gut-check issues for pro-gunners, and would mobilize us and bring us to the voting booths in droves. It would be an absolute political disaster for Democrats in general and Davis in particular.

Ain't gonna happen.

[Sigarmed]

Why take a chance? The point is a bill like this should never see the light of day. Hopefully our lawmakers will get the point.