Gun, ammo taxes!

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A pair of Democratic lawmakers are proposing steep new taxes on handguns and ammunition, and tying the revenues to programs aimed at preventing gun violence. <br />
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Called the “Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act," the bill sponsored by William Pascrell, D-N.J., and Danny Davis, D-Ill., would nearly double the current 11 percent tax on handguns, while raising the levy on bullets and cartridges from 11 percent to 50 percent. <br />
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"This bill represents a major investment in the protection of our children and our communities, and reflects the long-term societal costs of gun and ammunition purchases in our country,” Pascrell said. <br />
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The lawmakers say the bill would generate $600 million per year, which would be used to fund law-enforcement and gun violence prevention. <br />
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Critics predicted defeat for the measure. <br />
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“What the anti-gun interests can’t ban, they want to tax it out of existence,” Alan Gottlieb, chairman for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, told FoxNews.com. “It’s nothing more than confiscatory taxation. ... <br />
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Read the whole story here from Foxnews.com<br />
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Posted Tue Aug 27 10:13:13 CDT 2013[/font]

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http://www.foxnews.c...-with-new-bill/<br />
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The bill would exempt all federal, state and local agencies, including police departments, from paying the tax.

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[background=rgb(255, 255, 255)]Imagine all those Sheriffs who wrote Obama stating they would not confiscate guns creating Reserve Officers Auxiliary Regiments and enlist citizens who have undergone background checks (and pay their annual R.O.A.R. membership dues which cover the background checks and liability insurance for the department, etc) as sworn officers. That exempts them from the taxes and gives them the extra transportation and access rights that current sworn police officers have. [/background]

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Alternatively, consider a bunch of rural neighbors incorporating, or a small town or village currently without it's own police department, forming a police department using volunteers who follow the R.O.A.R procedures. Imagine a blip on the map such as Lyden, Wisconsin http://en.wikipedia....yden,_Wisconsin (don't blink or you'll miss it, even if you're walking by) creating a sworn police force of 17,845 officers, living as far away as Madison or Rockford.<br />
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Davis, who represents a portion of Chicago which has been ravaged by gun violence in recent years, said money raised from the new taxes will go to good use.<br />
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"This legislation is a pro-active approach to reducing gun violence by using proven preventive programs which have been starved for funds until now," Davis said. "As part of a comprehensive, multidimensional strategy to reduce gun violence, this legislation closes major loopholes in tax law and lays out an equitable, long term, sustainable strategy to provide the requisite resources.”

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Why doesn't Cook County enact a Gang Banger Tax and target those shooters causing the most violence in Chicago?<br />

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