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IL: Cook County Official Condemns Poll Tax Analogy for Ammunition Tax
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A spokesman for the Cook County president’s office defended its ammunition tax increase in response to a report from Illinois Business Daily, taking particular issue with one gun rights group executive’s choice to compare the increase to a “modern-day poll tax.” “Most appalling, you compare the bullet tax to a poll tax,” Frank Shuftan, press secretary for the Cook County president said in an email to the Illinois Business Daily. “Poll taxes were historically designed to disenfranchise African-Americans from being able to vote, a stain on our history rooted in institutional racism and exclusion.”
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mickey
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Right, poor analogy. Poll taxes were designed to prevent blacks from voting.
You only want to prevent blacks from living.
That's soooo much better... |
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