Posted on 01/29/2016 8:45:19 AM PST by Iron Munro
Here's an idea.
If we can't outlaw guns or confiscate them, tax them.
Make it a law to register everyone's guns and then charge a tax yearly for each one of them.
Slowly raise the taxes every year (due to an increasing bureaucracy to handle the paperwork) so they become too expensive to own.
When and if the taxes are overdue, take out a lien on the guns and foreclose on them.
Hold them until exorbitant taxes, storage and lawyer fees (more than the gun is worth) are paid.
If not paid in a timely fashion, they will be destroyed.
If a gun is not registered to be taxed it will be confiscated because it was not reported, not because it is illegal to own.
Fines and back taxes will have to be paid to get the weapon back.
If not paid in a timely fashion, they will be destroyed.
A certificate must be attached to every single weapon to prove the yearly tax has been paid.
Greg Olson
Tampa
Ammo taxes are also broadly discussed.
Problem is: it’s not the person buying 1000 rounds that the state should be concerned about (who can’t afford +$1000 for mere recreation). It’s the person who, with malice in mind, buying one box of 20-50 rounds that CAN easily afford the $1/round tax, and isn’t much concerned about what happens after (considering what he’ll do with it).
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>> What about the G. Olsens?
> Sorry about their luck.
Sarah Connor feels your pain.
Let’s tax stupid people, like the douch nozzle that wrote this op/ed. The deficit would be gone in less than a year.
CC
Absolutely brilliant (for Russia, maybe).
We also have a precedent against any such onerous tax. One of the Jim Crow provisions was a poll tax that many people could not afford to pay, almost exclusively black people. The argument was that any tax that burdensome was a de facto denial of the rights protected under the Constitution, and was therefore invalid.
And now we see a sign of the true reason for the individual mandate in Obamacare.
That is a GREAT tag line! A++
Or an ‘income tax’. People just LOVE working more for the benefit of GOVT /s.
There’s ONE part of that ‘purpose’ for taxes which you missed: AUTHORITY for which they wish to tax.
EG: O’Care. Sure, Congress can tax, but since they have NO authority to meddle, let provide, insurance, the tax (should be) is null and void.
I've got a better idea. Let's use them on the idiots who come up with that kind of idea!
I’m just sayin, If I were a liberal, an ammo tax would produce more dough. Guns you can hide or buy off them the street. It’s ammo that can be better controlled.
There were several instances here in Alabama where local jurisdictions decided to move against adult movies. They had previously voted to ban them and lost that in court. So, like this liberal, they said we can just levy a huge tax on them. They enacted a $50 rental fee for all XXX movies. They lost that one in court too. For the reasons I cited.
So Mr. Olson you want to go down that slippery slope of taxing Constitutional Rights?
Lets tax the 1st Amendment also. Every person that is employed as a news person a blogger a writer etc. pays a yearly tax to use that Constitutional Right. A right to an abortion? Sure now pony up your tax fee for that abortion.
And 2300 years earlier, the Battle of Thermopylae.
Yeah, liberals love to use the tax code to further their agenda and control...
I think the burden of an added tax on ammo or guns would result in behaviors liberals don’t properly account for: a black market, alternatives (like reloading brass), financial incentive (good time to own a machine shop), and maybe even innovation (3D printer?).
In another thread today I read that the Police Commissioner of Boston says his constituents don’t need a shotgun or rifle. Amazing isn’t it? This man has god-like powers to know when/if residents of the city will need a firearm. He must also have his force trained to arrive within seconds of any instance where a citizen needs to be defended- that’s some efficiency!
Personally, from the perspective of having been robbed at gunpoint, I’d argue that limitations on ownership of a weapon, financial burdens of ownership, limitations on number of rounds in a magazine... are all examples of a tyranny blinded by idealism placing our lives at risk.
Thanks. Had it since January 20, 2009.
“But the “Tax” ruse worked okay on Obamacare- didn’t it?”
And as we’re just about to select a nominee to run for President a large portion of conservatives are trading the possibility of appointing one or more Supreme Court justices that will preserve our rights for hope and change.
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