Posted on 01/18/2013 6:28:05 PM PST by SMGFan
A New Jersey assemblywoman has introduced a bill that would add an extra 5 percent sales tax on guns and ammunition.
The money would fund safety improvements to public buildings.
Since the incident in Newtown, you start to listen to people. I’m listening to students, I’m listening to educators, I’m listening to everybody,” said Assemblywoman Connie Wagner (D-Bergen). “I think the first thing has to be to take care of our infrastructure. then comes up the second question, well how are we going to pay for this?”
Under the bill (A3727), gun purchasers would pay the extra sales tax on top of the current 7 percent sales tax.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Pikers. The tax on loose cigarette tobacco went up by 2300% in 09.
Just like I do every year since 2009.
More than one way to avoid the revenuers.
/johnny
Waiting to hear about their new surtax on violent movies, music and video games.
The same reason I brew my own beer.
:-)
I make stuff. And make stuff work.
/johnny
This is the problem: Politicians couldn't WAIT to go stand on the dead bodies of those 20 children and find away to profit from it.
That fat bastard Christie and his newfound lover Barack Hussein Obama just make me want to vomit.
Yo Connie! If you’re “listening to everybody” then listen to me. Stop dancing in the blood of those children and stop exploiting their deaths for YOUR dumbass TAX INCREASE. You moronic, commie lib politicians are pathetic! You all make me sick.
I’m a little surprised the tax isn’t higher than that. Of course, we all know taxes always start small, and continue to grow and grow as time goes by.
That sucker will hit 25% before ya know it! Will be interesting to see what measures folks will take to avoid compliance, which is common for most all such taxes.
Here's an idea: introduce a "murder tax". That'll do about as much good as making schools "gun free zones".
Isn’t this an ethics issue for them. They are profiting from “something that kills people.”
Oh thats right. They are a bunch of greedy politicians looking for excuses to tax the people. It has nothing to do with protecting the people and all about money.
Slimebags.
I’d make them a deal. I’ll pay the 5% if they let me buy a gun cash and carry. No check, not waiting.
That should be OK with them, after all they’re safe in their newly fortified buildings.
Why not bring back the poll tax, or an “editorial” tax on newspapers, maybe a prayer tax. Will we remain silent when, next, the Feds impose licensing requirements to practice our religion or post on FreeRepublic? If we allow our rights to be taxed or licensed, are they really rights?
Brings to mind the Stamp Act and its eventual fallout.
Oh I get it. This woman is happy to exploit the dead children at Sandy Hook if it means she gets her building improvements. Shocked? No,she’s a lib. She’d have her own children killed (or aborted) and claim it should lead to other public programs if she could get by with it.
Wonder why I said “if”,,,obviously it IS standard operating procedure to a liberal.
I think they’re gonna run into a problem with “Minneapolis Star v. Minnesota Comm’r - 460 U.S. 575 (1983)” since the 2nd amendment is so fundamental.
If you can’t have a special ink tax for the printing press because it violates the 1st amendment then it would seem that would carry over.
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/460/575/case.html
Bingo!! If they can get away with this kind of tax then they can have an extra tax on Newpapers and Radios.
CC
These Marxist asshats will do anything to steal Liberty, tax, waste, repeat.
The bureaucratic state knows no bounds.
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