Bullet tax proposed in Chicago to defray healthcare expenses

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The top executive of the county that includes Chicago took aim at gun owners on Thursday, proposing a tax on bullets and firearms to help defray healthcare expenses associated with the high rate of gun violence.

If approved by the Cook county commission, the nation's third most populous county could be the first major metropolitan area in the nation to impose a tax as a form of gun control, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/10/ ... ml?_r=2&hp

That tax should stop those damn criminals... what a great plan!!!

Just buy your cartridges in the suburbs.

What a bunch or crap. Of course it's a dem.

Heisenberg wrote: That tax should stop those damn criminals... what a great plan!!!

The intent, as you know if you read the story, is not to stop criminals but to help pay for some of the healthcare costs associated with their use of guns.

So the legal citizens pay up like usual while those in the underground economy don't even pay up.

They are going to need a lot more taxes than that. Right behind California, Illinois is in bad shape.

Should do wonders for small business. Everyone will just drive over to Wisconsin to shop like they already do. LOL

Yep, just tax it!

Yep....that highway to Wisconsin is well traveled.

Raees wrote:

Heisenberg wrote: That tax should stop those damn criminals... what a great plan!!!

The intent, as you know if you read the story, is not to stop criminals but to help pay for some of the healthcare costs associated with their use of guns.

So why tax bullets?

the first major metropolitan area in the nation to impose a tax as a form of gun control

Ya, I'm sure it's just about health care expenses.