Posted on 06/08/2022 3:35:36 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A GOP congressional candidate suggested how gun stores could circumvent a 1,000% tax on AR-15s.
The entails stores selling a Snickers bar for $950 while letting an AR-15 go for $1.
The store would then charge a "$10 excise tax" and avoid paying the 1,000% tax on the AR-15.
A Republican candidate for Congress claimed this week that there would be a way for gun stores to circumvent Democratic lawmakers' efforts to slap a 1,000% tax on AR-15s.
Errol Webber, a Republican congressional candidate for California's 47th district, tweeted on Monday in response to Insider's reporting on the potential gun tax.
The bill itself, which Virginia Rep. Don Beyer plans to introduce, involves a 1,000% fee being slapped on assault weapons — a move that would likely restrict access to them without being an outright ban.
The Democratic lawmaker's proposal would mean that a new AR-15 — which currently costs anywhere from $500 to over $2,000 — might see the tax adding $5,000 to $20,000 to the final sales price. The AR-15 was the weapon used in the deadly school shooting on May 24, which saw 21 people being fatally shot at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
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The public has already accepted outrageous excise taxes on things they don’t like. This would just be another punished act of commerce on that list.
As usual, only those actually impacted by it will complain.
First they came for the communists...
They want to pass anything to say, “See! I did something!” Then it’ll go to the courts and either stand or fall, but it’s a game of inches. At this point it doesn’t matter how egregious the idea, whether or not it passes, they’ll say, “But we tried! Those eeeeeeeevil Republicans stopped us from protecting you.”
Nah, change the name to AR-14, that way the ycan say it’s a “lesser” gun.
Paint it pink and call it a pussy popgun.
They won’t know what to do.
Even better, make it something that is tax exempt, like a head of broccoli.
I guess this means only rich folks could afford to buy one. Why am I not surprised?
I still do not see how taxes on gun is constitutional since no poll tax or any tax can be levied on other Bill of Rights.
There are no specific right to vote in the BOR (amendment 1 - 10) in the constitution. Several constitutional amendments (the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-sixth specifically) require that voting rights of U.S. citizens cannot be abridged on account of race, color, previous condition of servitude, sex, or age (18 and older); the constitution as originally written did not establish any such rights ...
The legislation won’t use the term AR-15. It will apply the tax to all center fire semi-automatic rifles.
Virginia Rep. Don Beyer plans to introduce, involves a 1,000% fee being slapped on assault weapons.
He wants to turn back the clock for the crazy people to the weathermen days when they used bombs it appears.
They did that in California. Got rid of the threaded barrel and put a thumbhole instead of a pistol grip. Same weapon, just not as scary. AND of course, had to get rid of the bayonet mounts because of all those assault bayonet charges in the ‘ hood.
I still do not see how taxes on gun is constitutional since no poll tax or any tax can be levied on other Bill of Rights.
However, there were arguments against specific taxes on ink and newsprint which would interfere with the freedom of the press.
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