same-same, 50% is 50%...
Posted on 12/29/2012 6:11:49 PM PST by vet7279
"The Hartford Courant reported last week that two Democratic legislators were proposing a new 50 percent tax on bullets as part of a broader gun-control bill. The Connecticut legislation is one sign that the gun-control debate that the shootings will prompt next year in statehouses around the country could morph into an ammunition-control debate, too."
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It's all been tried before.
A box or a bullet?
Yep, this will really solve the problem. I am sure the bad guys who shoot people and commit robberies with stolen guns will be really upset when they run out of stolen ammo and make a quick stop at Walmart only to find out they have to pay extra money.
Politicians are not only insane, they are stoopid!
Politician buffoonery creating yet another black market. The Mexican smugglers will love this one.
This is nothing new. I still remember the video of Moynihan laughing and saying we can tax this out of existence.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/04/us/moynihan-asks-big-tax-increase-on-ammunition.html
Oh and adding a hefty tax on tobacco has worked so well to get people to get smoking too.
Freaking idiots!
It is not a tax, it is a revenue enhancement... /s
same-same, 50% is 50%...
Ohh I misread it, I thought it said.50 cents.
The bullet tax is nothing new. It has been proposed many times before.
per box would be one thing, per round, that WOULD be rough...
And we all know that when people get elected to office they automatically
become 1000 times smarter than those who elected them to office.
Saw it coming. So sad. Too late “COMRADE”.
“Truth is stranger than fiction”
Chris Rock on making every bullet cost $5,000.00:
“If every bullet cost five thousand dollars, there would be no more `innocent bystanders’”.
“Dude musta did something, they put fifty thousand dollars worth of bullets in his @ss!”
“And people would think twice! “I would blow your f***ing head off....if I could afford it! I’m gonna get me another job, start saving some money, and you’re a dead man!”
Oh well, got to laugh at something in a world gone mad.
Why doesn’t the Connecticut legislature simply levy a 500% tax on every Connecticut manufactured Colt AR-15 sold for the commercial market?
Why don’t these gun grabbers put their money where their mouths are?
Right. This idea was waved around when Clinton was POTUS.
But what if I make my own bullets? (...when I’m not tending the still, of course.)
let’s see now, I decide to shoot up the local nursery school but the tax on bullets is very high. I need about 1,000 bullets, and at the end of my shoot-em up, I’m going to kill myself. I don’t have the cash for the ammunition so I guess I’ll have to put them on my credit card, tax and all. By Wednesday, I’ll be dead and I guess Mastercard will just have to live with it...too bad!!!.....and people actually think that a tax will deter anything.....pathetic
let’s see now, I decide to shoot up the local nursery school but the tax on bullets is very high. I need about 1,000 bullets, and at the end of my shoot-em up, I’m going to kill myself. I don’t have the cash for the ammunition so I guess I’ll have to put them on my credit card, tax and all. By Wednesday, I’ll be dead and I guess Mastercard will just have to live with it...too bad!!!.....and people actually think that a tax will deter anything.....pathetic
This makes perfect sense. Someone planning to use 100 rounds to kill 50 people at an elementary school, and then himself, will be thwarted by having the rounds cost $1.50 each, instead of a $1.00 each, when the gun and loaded magazines are stolen, but this will have no effect on law-abiding citizens who shoot 100 rounds a week, every week, to retain their skills. Yep, this measure is carefully crafted to do *just* what it was supposed to do, without any unintended consequences.
Say, isn’t there a book of the same name?
Not new. That pompous, verbose, over-rated fat clown Daniel Patrick Moynahan (Spelling?) from New York proposed the very same thing.
Liberal idiots are inventive if not logical.
I always wonder about that. I have several reloading presses; I can easily put together thousands of cartridges in a day on either a progressive or turret press.
I suppose they would try to tax primers and possibly brass, powder, and manufactured bullets. I cast my own bullets. I reuse my brass. I have heard that it is a lot of trouble and I have never tried it, but primers can be reused. I have read discussions about making powder. If the authorities try to tax ammo out of existence... creative individuals will find a way to get around it.
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