In Seattle, exercising your Second Amendment rights is now a taxable activity. Recently, a judge ruled that the city's ordinance that adds a $25 tax on firearms sold within the city limits, plus an additional two to five cent fee on every round of ammunition, fell within the council's taxing authority. The law goes into effect next year (via CBS News):
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Poll tax - it'll be defeated on appeal.
ReplyDeleteThough this is just another example of why there needs to be a 100' tall wall built around Seattle and then filled with concrete...
there needs to be a 100' tall wall built around Seattle and then filled with concrete...
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Another "feel good" law, that will make matters worse. Also just how are they going to enforce it? People will buy their guns and ammo outside the city limits. It will be an incentive for those who reload their own ammo. Of course when this law fails, there will be a call to expand this law state wide, which then create another black market for guns and ammo. Supply and demand. Of course some people, will continue to buy, if you are dropping let's say $700 on a rifle, what's an extra $25? As for the ammo, if it is a box of 50, then that comes out to an extra $2.5o per box.
ReplyDeleteBut this must be opposed and defeated on principle. If this is allowed to stand, then other cities and states will follow suit. And as sure the sun rise, the amount of the tax WILL increase. If they can tax at $25, what is there to stop them from raising it to $35, or $50 or even $100 per firearm? Or with ammo, why shouldn't they raise the tax to 50 cents per round?
Excellent. Thanks.
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