**'Violence Tax' to be imposed on guns & ammo? WTF??**

[The_Outlaw]

Officials in Illinois' Cook County are eyeing a so-called "violence tax" on guns and ammo -- a move aimed at curbing violence and closing the budget gap, but one that's drawing a rebuke from the gun lobby.
MyFoxChicago.com reports that homicides in Chicago are up 25 percent this year, and some officials in surrounding Cook County are looking to use such a tax to curb the number of guns in circulation.
But NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde told the Chicago Sun-Times it's "just another example of the blame game."
"Chicago and Cook County has a gun violence problem, Chicago's got a high high school drop-out rate, they've got a drug problem, they've got a gang problem, but they want to make legal gun owners, guys like me, the scapegoat," he said.
The Sun-Times reports that Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is leading the charge for the tax, though the specific amount is unclear.
Preckwinkle Chief of Staff Kurt Summers told the Sun-Times that while it wouldn't "popular" with the gun lobby, "it is consistent with our commitment to pursuing violence reduction in the city and in the county."

Illinois county considers 'violence tax' on guns and ammo | Fox News

 

[no sheep]

"homicides in Chicago are up 25 percent this year" this could be a good thing, it really depends on who it is if its a bunch of crooks good .

 

[Nightmare45]

Why don't you just put the criminals in jail instead of imposing tax on honest folks, oh wait it's the presidents home state.

 

[JSDinTexas]

With a name like Toni Preckwinkle I might be coming up with stupid ideas too.

 

[fuhr52]

More typical feel good, good intentions, progressive liberal politics. Look at how much money these progressive liberal hacks have thrown at their problem areas throughout history. Notice any positive change?

 

[gsim]

This is just going to press people into internet sales, pulling money out of state...good for gunbroker and buds.

 

[Rhino]

A tax won't help them. They just need to practice good gun safety.

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[NCIC105]

"homicides in Chicago are up 25 percent this year" this could be a good thing, it really depends on who it is if its a bunch of crooks good .

Fix the problem.
Don't create a tax to punish the citizens that are not causing the problem.

 

[golocx4]

I like #8.

What? You gave him your credit card too!!! Now he will be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition!!!!

 

[no sheep]

Fix the problem.
Don't create a tax to punish the citizens that are not causing the problem.

I ment the homicides may be good not the tax.

 

[CharlesMorrison]

What Chicago REALLY needs is a STUPIDITY tax on politicians! We could balance the budget in 6 months with THAT tax!

 

[OldLlama32]

See how the murder rate goes down when we have legal armed citizens. CCW for Illinois!! they will think twice before robbing someone if they think they can fight back.

 

[alternety]

If they really want to tax violent death and injury; tax cars.

 

[Deserteagle]

Chicago should just start "regulating" gangs to "make them safe" by making them register as groups and then pay taxes and be subject to government regulation. People seem to think it works for "medical" marijuana, so why not gangs?

 

[B2Tall]

Illinois is the greatest success the Soviet Union had during the cold war. They managed to set up a Marxist state smack-dab in the middle of our country.....so successful that it still exists today, stronger than ever, long after the collapse of her parent state the USSR. In Illinois the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are no more valid than a Dr. Seuss book. California has tried desperately to match Illinois in terms of Marxist/socialist doctrine but to no avail..........the coveted "Josef Stalin Award for Progressive Liberalism" rests firmly in the hands of those pulling the strings in the so-called "Land of Lincoln" *

This just reinforces IL as #1 on my list of "States to Avoid Like the Plague".

*Unconfirmed reports say that the ghost of Abraham Lincoln has filed a lawsuit to have his name removed from any and all references to the state of Illinois.

 

[AppliedPerspective]

A tax won't help them. They just need to practice good gun safety.

I thought everybody did #6. I know I do. Of course, I reference Mel Brooks movies as much as possible anyway...

 

[The_Outlaw]

What Chicago REALLY needs is a STUPIDITY tax on politicians! We could balance the budget in 6 months with THAT tax!

Agreed!...........................

 

[gunnerbob]

I think Chicago is a lost cause, and it's spreading across the state...

Let the thugs have it, let 'em kill each other off. Nobody really likes IL anyway... right, right? Maybe we should qurantine the state off from everybody else?

Haha...

 

[CharlesMorrison]

The only problem with that is that we have brothers and sisters trapped behind enemy lines. We can't just give up, not until they have the right to fight for themselves!

 

[gunnerbob]

They do have that right...