Posted on 11/19/2015 4:00:24 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
The idea was to ask the state to establish a special sales tax on handgun and ammunition sales. The thought was that the money made from the sales tax would help pay for body cameras.
The Baltimore City Council's public safety committee rejected the resolution, but it is clear the conversation about funding the body camera program is not going away.
City Councilman Carl Stokes, who is running for mayor, was one of the resolution's sponsors.
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Crime is up, terrorism is up, the president is openly and aggressively stocking the nation with even MORE terrorists, and the anti’s will do anything - anything at all - to disarm Americans at this critical time.
I have an idea for you numbskulls.
Tax diapers.
There are many more packages of diapers being sold than guns or ammo (marginally, but even so).
Add a dime or a quarter to every package of diapers, and you've got your body cameras.
Besides, you're doing it "for the children", right? Fine then - their parents can ante up.
ILLINOIS
Preckwinkle’s tax-laden 2016 COOK county budget easily passes
Hal DardickContact ReporterChicago Tribune
Preckwinkle’s budget approved, find out How They Voted
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s $4.5 billion budget won approval Wednesday, and people who shop, stay in hotels and file lawsuits will be paying more next year.
Overall county spending is expected to increase by about $500 million under a budget commissioners approved 12-5. The spending plan depends on a penny-on-the-dollar sales tax increase, a new 1 percent tax on hotels and $20 in additional fees for each lawsuit filed.
Preckwinkle’s budget also includes a 20-cents-per-milliliter tax on the liquids that fuel electronic cigarettes and
AMMUNITION TAX: a bullet tax that ranges from 1 cent to 5 cents per round, depending on the type of ammunition.
All told, the tax hikes are expected to bring in nearly $512 million a year, with the bulk of that — $474 million — coming from the sales tax increase. Come Jan. 1, Chicago once again will have a sales tax rate of 10.25 percent, the highest among big U.S. cities.
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