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Seattle's Gun Tax Still Faces Opposition
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To Mike Coombs, owner of Seattle’s Outdoor Emporium, a hunting, fishing and camping store, the city’s gun tax is unfair and aimed at driving him out of the city, if not out of business. To Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess, the tax is a good way to fund medical research on reducing gun- violence injuries.
The two represent opposing poles in the debate over Seattle’s tax on guns and ammunition that took effect Jan. 1 and puts this city at the center of a dispute over whether municipalities can tax firearms or whether states alone have the power to regulate and tax guns. |
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mickey
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How about saying taxes upon civil rights, such as poll taxes, are illegal in all jurisdictions of this allegedly free nation?
It's pretty clear that 2A protected implements are immune to even sales taxes in the same way that houses of worship are immune to property taxes. |
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