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Next Gun Debate May Be About Taxes &Demograhics
serf
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Are you ready for the midterm elections? There is a lot riding on this time around! Is taxes on firearms internet sales at risk here?
serf
There?s nothing in the Constitution that says businesses have to sell anything to anyone. ??
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-battleground-in-the-gun-debate-may-be-taxes-2018-05-16
This has less to do with who?s in Congress and how much cash the National Rifle Association is stuffing in lawmaker?s pockets?and more to do with something that is harder to see: the fact that the gun base in the United States skews 1) male, 2) white, 3) rural and 4) somewhat lesser educated?all trends that run counter to an America that is 1) majority female, 2) rapidly urbanizing, 3) more educated and 4) less white (white births are now a minority of all U.S. births) than ever before. Data on these evolving trends can be found in the recent ?demographics of gun ownership? study by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan organization based here in Washington.
As these changing demographics and consumer habits gradually erode the still-powerful gun culture, its political base is likely to erode as well. Like water running downhill, this is the natural order of things. And if you take this reality and layer it on top of another one?namely, the ongoing fiscal pressure that states and cities across the country constantly face?it suggests that guns and ammunition could be increasingly seen as an undertapped source of revenue.
serf
There?s nothing in the Constitution that says businesses have to sell anything to anyone. ??
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-battleground-in-the-gun-debate-may-be-taxes-2018-05-16
This has less to do with who?s in Congress and how much cash the National Rifle Association is stuffing in lawmaker?s pockets?and more to do with something that is harder to see: the fact that the gun base in the United States skews 1) male, 2) white, 3) rural and 4) somewhat lesser educated?all trends that run counter to an America that is 1) majority female, 2) rapidly urbanizing, 3) more educated and 4) less white (white births are now a minority of all U.S. births) than ever before. Data on these evolving trends can be found in the recent ?demographics of gun ownership? study by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan organization based here in Washington.
As these changing demographics and consumer habits gradually erode the still-powerful gun culture, its political base is likely to erode as well. Like water running downhill, this is the natural order of things. And if you take this reality and layer it on top of another one?namely, the ongoing fiscal pressure that states and cities across the country constantly face?it suggests that guns and ammunition could be increasingly seen as an undertapped source of revenue.
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VOTE RED !
I voted by mail last week as did my wife.
Vote early and Vote often, OH wait that's the DemocRATS.
I voted by mail last week as did my wife.
You gotta go to the graveyard like LBJ did when he won the Senate seat in Texas in 1948. Hook and Crook is the name of the game!
serf
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/11/us/how-johnson-won-election-he-d-lost.html
quote:Originally posted by serf
Are you ready for the midterm elections? There is a lot riding on this time around! Is taxes on firearms internet sales at risk here?
serf
There?s nothing in the Constitution that says businesses have to sell anything to anyone. ??
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-battleground-in-the-gun-debate-may-be-taxes-2018-05-16
This has less to do with who?s in Congress and how much cash the National Rifle Association is stuffing in lawmaker?s pockets?and more to do with something that is harder to see: the fact that the gun base in the United States skews 1) male, 2) white, 3) rural and 4) somewhat lesser educated?all trends that run counter to an America that is 1) majority female, 2) rapidly urbanizing, 3) more educated and 4) less white (white births are now a minority of all U.S. births) than ever before. Data on these evolving trends can be found in the recent ?demographics of gun ownership? study by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan organization based here in Washington.
As these changing demographics and consumer habits gradually erode the still-powerful gun culture, its political base is likely to erode as well. Like water running downhill, this is the natural order of things. And if you take this reality and layer it on top of another one?namely, the ongoing fiscal pressure that states and cities across the country constantly face?it suggests that guns and ammunition could be increasingly seen as an undertapped source of revenue.