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If approved, the nation's third most populous county could be the first major U.S. metropolitan area to impose a tax as a form of gun control, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
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If approved, the nation's third most populous county could be the first major U.S. metropolitan area to impose a tax as a form of gun control, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
How completely rediculous!! This keeps many of the poor and lower income earners from owning a weapon for defense, the very people who are routinely preyed upon. If this isn't infringement, I don't understand the meaning of the word!!!
How completely rediculous!! This keeps many of the poor and lower income earners from owning a weapon for defense, the very people who are routinely preyed upon. If this isn't infringement, I don't understand the meaning of the word!!!
How different is it from the tax stamp? Back in the days $200 was pretty significant (1938 typical family earnings put at $2116 click), so we can be happy that didn't get inflation corrected. Of course for full-autos the 1986 measure didn't help affordability.
So taxing firearms to limit accessiblity has been around for almost 75 years!
IO suspect that that tax measure may get challenged in the courts at some point. We will see how it holds up.
How different is it from the tax stamp? Back in the days $200 was pretty significant (1938 typical family earnings put at $2116 click), so we can be happy that didn't get inflation corrected. Of course for full-autos the 1986 measure didn't help affordability.
So taxing firearms to limit accessiblity has been around for almost 75 years!
...limit access to the "lower class" while not infringing on the privilaged.
Remember, it is Chicago's present Mayor that said "never let a crisis go unexploited"
Or as Jimmy Carter said in 1972..."Oh, the people don't think we have an oil crisis, let's give them one" That is where our lovely 55mph national speed limit came from...remember that?
Wrong! It was Richard Nixon who imposed the 55 mph speed limit, along with wage and price controls. I know. I was there. Of course, somehow the wage controls worked very well, but the price controls...not so much.
Apparently guns are out running around on the street on there own with no people around even, "It is very important to us to tax guns because we know that guns are the sources of the incredible violence we have in our neighborhoods," said Preckwinkle
Apparently it is not the dirt bags that is the source of the problem. Will these people never learn?