Opinion on the Cali. bullet tax....

robsguns

Its stupid, for starters, but thats not what I have to say.
My wife has a great idea for the Cali. residents, and I'd love to see what would happen if this went up for a vote! She thinks that the tax that is proposed to be levied against each bullet should also be used in the exact same manner against each cigarette sold in Cali., lets see how the residents of Cali. would feel about that one. Smoking does kill more people each year than bullets do, so whats the smarter idea? I think cigarette smokers should pay the price for the health care more than us gun owners. Now I know both ideas have merit, but I also believe both ideas are stupid, depending on which habit you prefer, what do you think?

SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC

jastr

Good thing I just quite smoking huh...

lets all be responsible! shoot a criminal! Remember 0% of firearms pull there own trigger!

pikeal1

Here's what i say. let them have their bullet tax. The rest of the country proposes two new taxes. One to fund the law abiding gun owners relocation to any of the other 49 states, and one to pay for workers to dig around the California border in hopes that it will drift off to sea.

Big Sky Redneck

All this from a state that wants to tax sody pop because they need the money to treat fat kids who drink it! The politics in Kali is something I will never understand, they are so busy being PERFECT that they forget just how dumb they really look to the rest of the country. The Kali politicians see themselves as a master race they think they are god, how pathetic that state is.

offeror

I lived there 20 years, and the idiocy grows and grows. It is a failed experiment in liberalism as sure as the Soviet Union was a failed experiment in communism. Both tend(ed) toward totalitarian methods despite protestations that their quest was for the betterment of conditions for the people. Since Kalifornia has a bigger economy than many countries, I think of them as a separate entity from these United States more and more, even though they haven't broken off and floated away. Soon, people in Kalifornia gun stores, if there are any, will be addressing one another as "Komrad." I hear they're already doing that in Sacramento.

- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

gruntled

It will help to fund my retirement. Instead of just bringing back cigarettes from Nevada I can also pick up a few bricks of .22s.
Buy a brick for under $10 & the price here would be $35. Leaves a
great margin for black marketers.

Norman Dog

Sarge - California already taxes cigs to "offset" the cost of treating people with smoking-related illnesses. Some of the money also goes to the Dept of Health Services who has been running a lame advertising campaign against smoking. I'm not saying that it is lame because it is anti-smoking, it is lame because of the poor quality of the TV commercials and billboards. You would think that they could get decent TV commercial production in the state that invented Hollywood.

This arguement was also used to pass the motorcycle helmet law and the seatbelt law. The reasoning is: "As long as people are going to depend on the State to take care of them, the State has the right to dictate how the people shall live." So, if you are going to be foolish with your life AND expect the taxpayer to pick up the tab for the results of your foolishness, you will be mandated to act in a responsible manner. What kills me is the misuse of the tax money and that I, as someone who does not depend on the State to pay for my foolishness, have taken the time and spent the money to be self-sufficient.



WOOF.