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Chicago Enacted Same Gun Tax As Seattle, and Homicides are Up
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On October 10, 2012, Breitbart News reported that Cook County Officials were pushing a gun and ammo “violence tax” to offset the cost of gun violence in Chicago. The tax was implemented in 2013, homicides rose in 2014, and they are higher now than they were a year ago at this point.
On August 10, 2015 the Seattle City Council passed a similar tax–$25 for every gun and five cents for every bullet sold in the city–under the same premise; that a punitive tax will somehow punish those behind gun crime, perhaps reducing it.
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