Posted on 08/09/2010 11:39:45 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
FYI: this story is from a month ago...
“... but when the government fears its people there is liberty.”
One way to settle the problem is to keep the State Tax Suckers away/ Gun shows don’t have any trouble until some idiot shows up and wants to change the way they have always operated.
This is in the best American tradition! Our tea-partying Bostonian ancestors would be proud.
Wow! This is great! Yippeee for the Wyoming Country Class gun show people!
The government...any government...absolutely needs to fear the people!
We all know guns have a supernatural power over otherwise sane, stable individuals. The presence of a gun means an increased chance of someone who has been a normal, happy individual throughout life will suddenly snap, grab the gun and begin killing everyone in sight. It's continues to be a problem and a true mystery. </sarcasm>
Geesh!
Probably the last place a gov agent would get shot is at a gun show. But it’s good that you’re afraid and good that the people are giving you some attitude.
IIRC the tax is just under 8%,,,
I have to limit myself to what I can carry in a daypack,,,
A box of this or that,,,
This trip will just be for what I “want”,,,
Always fun...
It sounds to me that Dan Noble, director of the department’s excise tax division, made up this whole story to influence the public. I call BS.
This may not be one hundred percent accurate... but it’s close enough to get the job done...
A government that fears arms in the hands of it’s citizens... should also fear ROPE! Nathan Bedford Forrest... around 1845
Not bad for an illiterate backwoodsman who’s family was but a few years out of the kilt.
I don't see what there is to celebrate here.
I’m hoping that all the leaches that are govt. employees feel a bit of animosity from each and every citizen they deal with.
The message here is this: People are fed up with taxes. Hidden taxes are added daily. There is no such thing as a bad tax to a Democrat (though they themselves will try to evade it).
Okay, I am confused. Was the original incident one where an individual gun owner was selling a couple of his own guns, as the above suggests?
If so, that's not a retail transaction --- it's a private sale --- and I don't see why a retail sales tax could be collected on the private sale to begin with.
My own guess is that the author has mixed up two different subjects: people doing private transactions, which shouldn't be subject to retail sales tax, and the retailers who are selling at a gun show and who do have to comply with retail sales tax laws.
This kinda reminds me of the old fashioned John Wayne type of western, where the city slicker in a silly suit and a bowler hat walks into a bar/saloon full of cowboys and is scared out of his wits by real men ;-)
This tax collector brought his phobias into the room and left with them realised.
BTW, the local policeman thought that both men had short fuses, so this may have not been totally made up, but the tax dude’s response is hyperbolic.
Fuel and tire taxes that support the highway system make sense to me. Income tax and taxes on investment income and interest do not.
What I resent most about people like this inventive whiner is the FACT that they are all guilty of character assassination of good and honorable people. “Ohhhh...there’s evil guns there with conservative people...I MUST make them out to look bad and invent a problem to blame them with!”
Liar.
“Folks are nervous anyway because there are guns there.”
Really! Guns at a gun show, who would have thought! I need a couple guns but I’d be a little nervous going to a gun show to buy one since there are guns there.
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