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Californians Call on Perata to to IntroduceTax Cut
Josey1
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Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: Overtaxed
Working Men, Women of CA Call on Sen. Perata to Introduce Tax Cut
To: State Desk
Contact: Jeff Breedlove of the Citizens Committee for the Right to
Keep and Bear Arms, 916-201-8734
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following
was released today by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms:
April 15 Was Tax Day For The IRS And Sen. Don Perata.
Overtaxed Working Men and Women of California Call on Sen.
Perata to Introduce a Tax Cut - Not a Tax Hike on Our
Constitutional Rights.
Sen. Don Perata (D-East Bay) is the latest extremist to attempt
to impose a tax on the U.S. Constitution. It is un-American in the
wake of 9-11 that Sen. Perata would attempt to impose a tax on
Americans who exercise their Constitutional Rights
In California, millions choose to exercise the right to keep and
bear arms, for any number of reasons, among them to protect their
homes, businesses and families in these uncertain times. Record
numbers of Californians have taken steps to protect themselves and
their families in the wake of 9-11. Sen. Perata has decided that
if sales of bullets are up - why not tax them?
"It is a travesty of justice that Senator Perata would try to
tax bullets. Many Californians recall the riots in Los Angeles in
the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts. The state failed to
deploy the California National Guard for several days due to
political disagreements. The LAPD was reduced to mere bystanders
as thousands looted, raped and burned in the city. The nation
recalls that small business owners - most of them Asian, Hispanic
and African-American - were forced to stand in front of their
businesses with their personal guns to attempt to keep out the
looters," stated Kathryn Ballou with Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms (http://www.ccrkba.org).
"Now, Senator Perata wants to tax the ability of Californians to
protect and defend themselves. It is an outrage. There are a lot
of small business owners, hunters and just plain, honest taxpayers
in the Senator's home district and the rest of the State, who will
lose money if the Senator gets his power-grab tax enacted. There
is not one single criminal who will pay this tax. Once again, an
extremist attempts to tax the hardworking men and women as they
exercise their Constitutional Rights instead of addressing the real
issue of getting criminals off of the streets to keep our families,
homes and businesses safe," continued Ms. Ballou.
"Only in California - taxing bullets to help emergency rooms
makes about as much sense as taxing soft drinks to fight fat -
extremist utopia," concluded Ms. Ballou.
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of
the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in
local communities throughout the United States.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
04/18 20:31
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0418-162.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Working Men, Women of CA Call on Sen. Perata to Introduce Tax Cut
To: State Desk
Contact: Jeff Breedlove of the Citizens Committee for the Right to
Keep and Bear Arms, 916-201-8734
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following
was released today by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms:
April 15 Was Tax Day For The IRS And Sen. Don Perata.
Overtaxed Working Men and Women of California Call on Sen.
Perata to Introduce a Tax Cut - Not a Tax Hike on Our
Constitutional Rights.
Sen. Don Perata (D-East Bay) is the latest extremist to attempt
to impose a tax on the U.S. Constitution. It is un-American in the
wake of 9-11 that Sen. Perata would attempt to impose a tax on
Americans who exercise their Constitutional Rights
In California, millions choose to exercise the right to keep and
bear arms, for any number of reasons, among them to protect their
homes, businesses and families in these uncertain times. Record
numbers of Californians have taken steps to protect themselves and
their families in the wake of 9-11. Sen. Perata has decided that
if sales of bullets are up - why not tax them?
"It is a travesty of justice that Senator Perata would try to
tax bullets. Many Californians recall the riots in Los Angeles in
the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts. The state failed to
deploy the California National Guard for several days due to
political disagreements. The LAPD was reduced to mere bystanders
as thousands looted, raped and burned in the city. The nation
recalls that small business owners - most of them Asian, Hispanic
and African-American - were forced to stand in front of their
businesses with their personal guns to attempt to keep out the
looters," stated Kathryn Ballou with Citizens Committee for the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms (http://www.ccrkba.org).
"Now, Senator Perata wants to tax the ability of Californians to
protect and defend themselves. It is an outrage. There are a lot
of small business owners, hunters and just plain, honest taxpayers
in the Senator's home district and the rest of the State, who will
lose money if the Senator gets his power-grab tax enacted. There
is not one single criminal who will pay this tax. Once again, an
extremist attempts to tax the hardworking men and women as they
exercise their Constitutional Rights instead of addressing the real
issue of getting criminals off of the streets to keep our families,
homes and businesses safe," continued Ms. Ballou.
"Only in California - taxing bullets to help emergency rooms
makes about as much sense as taxing soft drinks to fight fat -
extremist utopia," concluded Ms. Ballou.
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of
the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in
local communities throughout the United States.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
04/18 20:31
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0418-162.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878