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Showing Original Post only (View all)We tax a gallon of gasoline to build and maintain roads and bridges [View all]
How about we tax each and every bullet, maybe $1 to $10... to build and maintain a more peaceful, less deadly nation?
Just a thought.
Or is taxation going away with Republicans in charge of the House? Do we need to simply get rid of Republicans in Congress as a better solution? Republicans seem to love the gun freedom, even more than a few dozen Dems on this DU place do. Opposition to gun control? Republican answer: let someone shoot them, Democratic answer: I'm not sure we have one.
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not sure it will go away, and in the meantime, guns are a very big part of violence and pollution
CreekDog
Mar 2013
#24
Agree. But most who covet guns would still covet them, carry them, buy the latest lethal technology
Hoyt
Mar 2013
#30
Because it partly works, and the US is going to need all kinds of solutions to fix the problem.
PDJane
Mar 2013
#3
How about we tax food at 10%. That way everyone pays more. Granted the poor will feel the pinch
geckosfeet
Mar 2013
#12
The plan is to make those who can afford it pay, not to tax the essentials of life.
PDJane
Mar 2013
#18
I have long proposed a $5 per round tax on handgun calibers .25 & up, and on the military-style
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#10
No, it wouldn't. Congress could raise it to a MILLION dollars a round, and the courts
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#41
Not so-the Supremes have already held that such a tax is unconstitutional
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2013
#50
it's a partial and temporary solution. The permanent solution is going to be a long slog.
PDJane
Mar 2013
#25
one or two. Mostly around one thing that had to be built, like water purification.
PDJane
Mar 2013
#38
Yep, I meant 7.62 X 39, the so-called "Soviet round." Thanks for the correction. n/t.
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#42
Would need a direct connection. Tax going to pay hospitals for handling gunshot wounds, or form an
freshwest
Mar 2013
#46
The owner of the gun, just like the owner of a car. Inanimate objects can't sign contracts. Not yet.
freshwest
Mar 2013
#48
The reason I asked was because some folks were talking about a policy for each firearm.
oneshooter
Mar 2013
#49