Ammunition and firearms are already the subject of excise taxes, the taxes go primarily to wildlife conservation programs.
^ this.
Aside from the fact that ammo is already taxed, do you really think it would stop at your suggested 10cents per round?
We are already overtaxed. For every dollar we earn, we pay about 43 cents of it in taxes to pay for an already bloated government and military.
And the suggestion that this tax would pay for school security really means that some Federal agency would set up yet another bureaucracy to administer a program nationally that would fund even more bureaucratic expansion to run school security at the state and local level. So, for every 10 cents per round how much would really go to school security. A nickle? A penny?
So, pardon me, but I think I'm already paying more than enough in taxes, fees and surcharges just to go about my daily business.
- I earn money, and pay considerable income taxes, social security taxes, and Medicare taxes.
- When I buy ammo or a firearm, I already pay sales tax to the state and county. Oh, plus a little surcharge to the state police for the background check.
- The car I drive to the range with required me to pay the state and county for a title, and the state and county for registration, plus annual inspections. And not to mention I paid a fee for a driver's license.
- When I drive to the range, most times I pay a toll tax.
- When I gasoline for the trip to the range, I pay up to 100% tax to the state for it.
- Oh, and when I call my wife on the way back from the range, yeah, pay federal, state, county, and city taxes on that cell phone.
How about we shrink some Federal agency in half ... say TSA, or even the Dept of Homeland Security overall ... and use those savings to pass down to local jurisdictions to properly conduct public safety.