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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 01:22 PM Jul 2015

Seattle considers $25 'gun violence' tax on all firearm sales

SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle City Council is considering a new tax on gun sellers to collect money for gun violence prevention and research on how to reduce the impact of gun violence on the city and its residents.

Under the proposal, gun and ammunition sellers would be charged $25 for every firearm sold in Seattle and 5 cents for every round of ammunition sold. City officials estimate the new tax would collect between $300,000 and $500,000 a year.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Seattle-City-Council-considers-gun-violence-tax-on-gun-sales-312571381.html
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Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
1. See you are against this as an I
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 01:34 PM
Jul 2015

Looks like a lot of surrounding businesses will get more customers if this goes through. I order a lot of my rounds in bulk online to save money when I see a sale.

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
2. Smells like bloomberg...
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 02:09 PM
Jul 2015

It should be interesting to see how he ties in to this.

What are the odds that he is uninvolved?

 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
3. The result would be the closing of gun stores in the city limits
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 02:38 PM
Jul 2015

If I lived in Seattle I would just buy ammo and guns outside city limits. I'll avoid that tax, and the sales tax with it will go to somebody else also.

The only problem is, this is probably what Seattle wants.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
4. Wonderful windfall for all the gun stores outside the city limits.
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 03:00 PM
Jul 2015

The Seattle City Council has done some terrific things over the last couple-three years. This isn't one of them. Unintended consequences, anyone?

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)
5. There should be a $25 tax on anyone who votes to reelect these knuckleheads.
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 03:44 PM
Jul 2015

Wait. What? Taxing fundamental rights is a no-no?

Shut the front door!

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
6. How much does the Seattle City Council have in their litigation fund account?
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 03:52 PM
Jul 2015

Pretty soon they could join Rahm and the City of Chicago writing really big checks to the SAF and NRA.

But maybe the voters have a few million to piss away on a losing cause ... or maybe Bloomberg is writing the checks for this one too?

ileus

(15,396 posts)
10. I estimate the new tax would collect nothing....
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 06:09 PM
Jul 2015

Just drive outside Seattle and buy at non-gouging prices.

Face it this is just another way to try and drive businesses out of business. Sad they resort to these kind of stupid tricks...

 

Shamash

(597 posts)
11. I wonder whose playbook Seattle got this from?
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 06:30 PM
Jul 2015

Abortion Rights - If They Can't Ban It They Are Going To Tax It

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/25/1359879/-Abortion-Rights-If-They-Can-t-Ban-It-They-Are-Going-To-Tax-It

I think the last paragraph of the linked story is quite appropriate with a substitution of "gun controllers" for "Republican Party".

pablo_marmol

(2,375 posts)
16. Bingo. Amazing how restriction supporters miss the hypocrisy.
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 10:18 PM
Jul 2015

Oh.....wait a minute. It's not amazing at all.
 

the band leader

(139 posts)
12. King county had 30 firearms homicides in 2010.
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 10:28 PM
Jul 2015

by comparison, there were 156 fatal heroin overdoses and a total of 314 fatal overdoses in 2014. That's a 58% increase in heroin overdoses in the space of one year. What's nore, Methamphetamine deaths increased 59% in the same year. So, it appears that Seattle doesn't actually have a gun violence problem but does have a rapidly developing drug problem just like everybody else.

http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/data/GunViolence/appendix.aspx

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/heroin-deaths-spike-nearly-60-percent-in-seattle-area/

 

Shamash

(597 posts)
13. I've got a solution to that
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:22 AM
Jul 2015

Just tax meth precursors and syringes and put the money towards drug abuse prevention programs. A $5 per box Sudafed tax and $1 per syringe tax will go a long way towards fixing the problem.

 

the band leader

(139 posts)
14. Admitting we have a problem is the first step in dealing with the problem.
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 10:19 AM
Jul 2015

Building more prisons is probably the next step after that.

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
15. Because putting drug users in prison has worked so well in the past?
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 01:17 PM
Jul 2015

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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