From the Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Raise Taxes On Guns And Ammunition
The Democratic senator and 2020 presidential candidate released a plan aimed at reducing gun deaths by 80%.
Oh great, she wants to take the tax the Chicago and Seattle have implemented at the Federal level and cranked up to 11.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants to sharply increase taxes on guns and ammunition as part of a comprehensive new plan to reduce gun deaths in the United States by 80%.
Warren, who is set to appear along with most of the other 20-plus Democratic presidential candidates at a gun control forum in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, is also proposing universal background checks, federal gun licensing, a one-week waiting period on all gun purchases to limit impulsive violence, a ban on assault weapons and a newly empowered Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, among a host of other suggestions.
A host of suggestions that won’t curb mass shootings and are most likely Unconstitutional. I don’t remember any other Constitutional right requiring a Federal license. I don’t need a permit to operate this blog.
The one week waiting period won’t do squat considering that in every mass shooting I can think of where the shooter bought his gun or guns, they were purchased and stockpiled for weeks or months in advance.
Warren chose the 80% mark for gun violence death reductions in order to echo the 80% reduction in driving deaths since 1965, when Congress decided the number of people dying in automobile accidents was unacceptable.
So she has no proof that her plan will reduce gun deaths by that much. She just picked it because it sounded good. It’s bullshit.
“We’ll start by implementing solutions that we believe will work,” she wrote. “We’ll continue by constantly revisiting and updating those solutions based on new public health research. And we’ll make structural changes to end the ability of corrupt extremists to block our government from defending the lives of our people.”
Two things set Warren’s plan apart: the taxes and her emphasis on eliminating the influence of the National Rifle Association.
the Democrats have never met a tax they didn’t want to implement or something they didn’t want to tax.
For a century, the federal government has imposed an excise tax on manufacturers and importers of guns and ammunition. Handguns are taxed at 10%, while all other guns and ammunition are taxed at 11%. Warren would raise the tax on guns to 30% and the tax on ammunition to 50%.
Holy shit, a 30% gun tax and 50% ammo tax. That’s a lot.
She has made it crystal clear that the purpose of her tax is to reduce the access to a Constitutional Right by making it prohibitively more expensive.
This is the very definition of a poll tax. When Democrats could no longer block Blacks from voting, they charged a fee that many Blacks couldn’t afford.
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections was a Supreme Court case from 1966 that decided that poll taxes were a 14th Amendment violation. A prohibitively expensive gun tax will have the same result. Denying lower-income people, especially minorities, equal access to a Civil Right by making it too expensive to exercise. This may go double for a Federal gun license, depending on the cost of the license. Remember that Illinois tried to raise the cost of a FOID by 1000% to $100 to reduce the number of people that would get it.
Speaking of Illinois. The Chicago gun tax did nothing to curb gun crime. Criminals who steal guns or sell them illegally on the streets don’t pay taxes.
All this would do is reduce participation in shooting sports and harm law-abiding gun owners. But that’s the point and she knows it.
Democrats have been using taxes to deny undesirable people their Civil Rights since the Republicans took away their slaves. Elizabeth Warren wants to do that again.
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