The rest of the country has the ability to view the fallout from certain state and judicial decisions, such as this one in the state of Washington. We can learn both the good and the bad from each one and decide whether similar actions should be taken in other locations. However, it's clear this tax in Seattle has caused some national outrage:
Two years ago, the president of the Seattle City Council wanted Seattle to place a new tax on the sale of firearms and ammunition. Ammo would cost an additional 2-5 cents per round, and a firearm would cost an extra $25. The tax was supposed to pay for gun violence prevention programs and research.
This “gun violence” tax would help offset the costs the city pays to treat gunshot victims. It was a tax levied on responsible law abiding gun owners, to pay for the actions of violent criminals.
So it’s no surprise that the tax has faced a lawsuit. The Washington Supreme Court recently ruled against the lawsuit on the grounds that taxes aren’t the same as regulations, and cities are well within their right to levy sales taxes.
As an article from Breitbart recently pointed out, it opens a new avenue for gun control activists to hamper the Second Amendment.
It opens the door wide to making gun ownership prohibitively expensive for average citizens. Essentially, Washington’s Supreme Court just handed the gun prohibition lobby and its allies in government a new strategy: If they can’t ban or regulate gun ownership out of existence, they will simply tax it into oblivion.
Firearm and ammunition taxes aren’t about reducing gun violence and saving lives. They’re about exploiting a legal loophole to make firearms too expensive for ordinary people to own.
What do you think of this firearms tax?
Article Source: SHTF Plan
Lose the business…
Corruption, confusion…
Lost business, gone to other towns.
Seattle doesn’t call the shots on anything .
Now, if Trump’s wall would just continue up the east coasts of California, Oregon and Washington and then Trump was to make a deal with Un to allow North Korea to use those states for target practice… The problem would be solved!!!
They just buy stuff in nearby cities. Pretty simple
Oh no not our guns again how are we ever going to eat and pay our bills
ILLEGAL tax
Nations future over lil Seattle’s choice to be unconstitutional on guns so their Starbuck, muslim lovin, hippies and degenerates can all sing kumbya in a pow wow circle and blow eachother. The court will$#%&!@*them up
That’s treason…shall not be infringed upon
That saying was created by a free people who didn’t believe in tax and went war over a 2% tax
Shall not be infringed!
Unconstitutional
Just buy your supplies elsewhere. Deny the city of Seattle you tax revenue.
Thats unconstitutional
Time to ban Seattle !
the seattle city council are a bunch of commie fags, there should be a bounty on these crooks and their tyrant fucking taxes!!
The tax has proven to be a failure. Buyers just go outside Seattle to purchase guns and ammo. Taxpayers were told the tax would generate $500,000 additional a year. It has generated barely $100,000. Giant failure. Crime rate is also up significantly in Seattle.