Ashland Oregon Editorial says to Tax Guns at 400 dollars Per Year/ Per Gun

[BBtoNFA]

That's right! With Mr. Dixons liberal logic only the crimanal and rich will have guns.

 

[notorious]

Let's hope Mr. Dixon will never have to face a deranged criminal who will break into his house to kill his wife and rape him.

 

[Audrey]

That's right! With Mr. Dixons liberal logic only the crimanal and rich will have guns.

That has been the policy for quite some time now, actually. And your television refers to it as "government." What it actually is, is a highly organized and dedicated commitment to disarm you, me and everyone reading this forum who is not active military.

And you can count George W. Bush among the "liberals" that have ruined your life.

I know the orders he has taken and carried out aren't making my life any better.

 

[notorious]

The funny thing is we are being squeezed in the middle between the government who has the sense of entitlement to our money and liberties to give them a higher level of comfort and privileges versus the criminal or non-taxpayer class who has also the same sense of entitlement from the government to take from us to pay their welfare and give them our money and goods and their sense of privilege.

How come the good guys like us never get a break?

 

[Guns and more]

I guess he thinks the criminals would pay the tax, then give up their guns and get jobs.

 

[JImbothefiveth]

Why don't we just tax crime?

 

[Lucky Strike]

Scott Dixon is a retarded engineer who lives in Ashland.

fixed.

from one oregonian engineer to another

 

[ShadyScott999]

that is over 10 million dollers per person (His math...100B/97,000) supposedly injured by firearms per year. Most numbers reported are in the 97,000 range

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[notorious]

Why don't we just tax crime?

Who's going to pay it? I doubt the criminals will line up to pay the crime tax being that they can hide behind the 5th Amendment because to pay the tax would be self-incriminatory that they did commit a crime.

Then it would fall back on us, the honest taxpayer.

 

[Grassman]

Typical lib thinking, tax tax tax. Taxation is just back door socialism.

 

[notorious]

Taxation is NOT backdoor socialism... it is front door confiscation of private wealth. The government only needs to take the minimum to keep essential services running and nothing else. This modern day behemoth of a federal government is running rampant with everything that is not expressly given to them in the Constitution.

There's nothing in the general welfare clause that empowers them to bail out any industry or to provide for welfare and unemployment to everybody.