Cook County Commissioner Roberto Maldonado is proposing a 10-cents-a-bullet tax on ammunition purchases in his county in order to make up $500 million budget deficit. He says of the tax it “is as close as possible to a sin tax”. Now it is not only unpopular to be a gun owner it is a “sin” in line with drinking, smoking, and gambling (the typical targets of “sin” taxes)? I love Illinois more and more every day. If ever we were going to ship all the libs off to an island and let them self destruct, Illinois is a ready made liberal bastion of idiots.
Taken from the April 2007 issue of America’s 1st Freedom
Maybe he meant the other kind of sin:
sin 2 |sīn|abbreviation sine.
It’s tangentially related in that it can be used to figure out the trajectory of a bullet.
Comment by — March 22, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
Good to see you posting again Aaron. Thats an intresting new law ya got proposed there. Ten cents a bullets seems like a lot. I mean is that every bullet? Regardsless of caliber? I mean everyone knows that caliber has a lot to do with price, 22’s versus some of the deer or non tox duck cartridges are not the same. Does is matter to them? Thats crazy either way. Then again a hunting and fishing license is nearly a hundred dollars here in Texas annually. On top of all that anyone born after 1971 must attend an 8 hour hunter education class to get certified in this great state ;) . Its illegal to hunt without one. I don’t mind paying, because a high % is paid for conservation efforts. Anyway I digress, and hope this law isn’t passed for your sake Aaron. Good luck brother.
Comment by — March 22, 2007 @ 10:46 pm