House Dem calls for tax on sugary drinks
Posted on 04/06/2015 10:40:22 AM PDT by jazusamo
Gun owners would receive tax breaks for voluntarily turning in high-powered assault rifles under new legislation proposed Monday.
The Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act expected to be reintroduced next week by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) would provide gun owners with an incentive to turn in their firearms to local police departments.
“Assault weapons are not about hunting, or even self-defense,” DeLauro said . “There is no reason on earth, other than to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible, that anyone needs a gun designed for a battlefield.”
Though DeLauro is in favor of stronger guns laws that would completely ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition, she emphasized this bill would not force gun owners to turn in their firearms.
The legislation would provide up to $2,000 in tax credits for gun owners who voluntarily hand over assault weapons to their local police departments.
The assault weapons legislation comes in response to the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., DeLauro’s home state, in December 2012.
DeLauro originally introduced the bill in January 2013, just one month after the Newtown shooting, but the legislation fell short in the Republican-controlled House. She plans to reintroduce it next week when Congress returns from recess.
She said the bill would help “get more assault weapons off the streets."
“Just days after the Newtown tragedy, President Obama asked, ‘Are we doing enough to protect our children?’ And he admitted the answer is, ‘no.’ That must change,” DeLauro said.
DeLauro is announcing the assault weapons legislation this week in conjunction with National Public Health Week.
The co-sponsors include Reps. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), and David Cicilline (D-R.I.).
House Dem calls for tax on sugary drinks
Oh for CH#### SAKE JUST COME AND GET THEM, IT’S WHAT YOU WANT!
Bullets first
Take the tax break and go by a new one!
That ugly mutt could get a job scaring babies.
Hmmm..$2,000 in tax credits? Maybe we should buy as many “assault rifles” as possible for say, $1,000, then turn them in and get $2,000 back.
“The co-sponsors include Reps. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), and David Cicilline (D-R.I.).”
6 Stooges.
That's right.
They're about KILLING TYRANTS.
Think it over.
Here’s a better idea: pay people on welfare to be sterilized.
I thought Leonard Nimoy had died.
Shouldn’t that be SAFEER?
I mean really. Say Fear?
Wow... liberalism sure takes its toll, does it not?
The evil just seeps out through the skin.
So, if I purchase an assault weapon for $500, I can get $2,000 for it from the government. Net profit: $1,500.
"Designed for the battlefield" when? Even flintlocks were "designed for the battlefield" at one time. If she means right now, then that excludes the AR-15, which was explicitly designed for the civilian market.
She knows that conservatives are the only ones actually paying their taxes
Indeed. When the gov’t fears the people, there is freedom.
This assumes something to be afraid of.
When Pigs Fly!
gun buyback, no one ever thought of that before. lol
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