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$25-a-gun sales tax approved in Chicago area
This item follows on from an article we published a month ago, whereby Ms Preckwinkle proposed a “Bullet Tax”. Since then, CCRKBA said there was a partial retreat on Cook County violence tax, but only a start.
A controversial “violence tax” on guns in the Chicago area was approved Friday by Cook County commissioners, NBCChicago.com reported.
The $25 tax on every gun purchased in the county — city law prohibits gun sales in Chicago — is meant to offset health care and other costs of gun violence, Board President Toni Preckwinkle said.
“Gun violence is a real problem for us,” she said. “It’s a problem for us in our criminal justice system and it’s a problem for us in our health care system, and I make no apologies for the proposal.”
Preckwinkle said the average shooting victim cost taxpayers $52,000 in acute care because nearly 70 percent of the victims don’t have health insurance, NBCChicago.com reported.
The vote follows a violent Chicago summer, when some weekends left multiple people killed and dozens of others injured in shootings, NBC Chicago.com reported. The city’s murder rate is up 25 percent for the year, and the Cook County Jail is near capacity with 9,000-plus inmates.
The National Rifle Association ahead of the vote said the “misguided and burdensome” gun tax “continues to penalize law-abiding gun owners for exercising their fundamental right to keep and bear arms.”
h/t MadJack
RANDO
November 20th, 2012
Prickwrinkle !?!!
Join the NRA, People.
Mr. Pinko
November 20th, 2012
How about a brain tax for anyone in Government office?
CrustyB
November 20th, 2012
No problem. I’ll just keep buying my guns under the table. Tax that.
Freeshiticus
November 20th, 2012
- registration
- tax
- confiscation
- massive taxes
- work camp for the survivors
Reg
November 20th, 2012
Will the last white person out of Chimpcago please turn off the light?
Doc
November 20th, 2012
If Al Sharpton had a son…he would look like HER!
Freeshiticus
November 20th, 2012
James Earl Prickwinkie
Carlos The Jackal
November 20th, 2012
Because, of course, all the criminals who use guns violently always buy them legally at an FFL gun shop…
Edith McCrotch
November 20th, 2012
I’d like to see the response if a white politician tried that on the fine Cook County citizenry.
Mr. Happy
November 20th, 2012
A “violence tax”? Why not a second amendment rights tax?
Either way, if they really wanted to decrease “violence” why not levy an additional tax on rap music?
I would compare the demographic “violence” rates between lawful gun owners to ghetto rats (that all look like they could be Obama’s non-existent son) any day.
This tax has a disparate impact upon white people and as such should be challenged.
Freeshiticus
November 20th, 2012
Race tax. Just like 0bama’s tanning tax. phuk em !
cfm990
November 20th, 2012
In a city that has strict gun laws. the violent, will never be taxed. Thugs get their guns outside the mainstream. If you truly want to end the violence, do away with the violent.
Freeshiticus
November 20th, 2012
If you pay the violence tax can you go out and raise hell, kick the shit out of faggots and liberals, because you are all paid up? I might go for that.
Bad Brad
November 20th, 2012
Please don’t send her to California.
Johnny Freedom
November 20th, 2012
Someone needs to introduce a 25 dollar tax on free speech in Chicago too… and then tar and feather these communist shitheads and ride them on a rail into Lake Michigan.
cfm990
November 20th, 2012
Ps. tonight I E-mailed an individual, for the purchase of a Beretta PX4 Storm. As of yet, a totally legal sale.
Noelegy
November 20th, 2012
I have a feeling all of that gun violence is coming from gun sales that don’t go down in stores, if you know what I mean. Kind of hard to tax those sales. 0000000000000000000
Noelegy
November 20th, 2012
Forgive the row of 0s. My cat typed those.
F.D.R. in Hell
November 20th, 2012
I was going to name my third son Preckwinkle, but Eleanor said it was racist…so we named him Elliott.
Mr.Gates
November 20th, 2012
There should be a sitting duck tax for inviting violence by being unarmed.
J Frank Parnell
November 20th, 2012
I know her! She’s Leslie Horwinkle’s daughter-in-law. Wonder how he’s been since the bailiff whacked his peepee.
(name the reference)
Mr.Gates
November 20th, 2012
Wait a minute. There were shootings in Chicago!? How is that even possible?
Eleanor in Hell
November 20th, 2012
Franklin, you idiot. That’s was your choice for the name of the dog, but we named him “Murray the Outlaw of Falahill” or Fala, for short.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
November 20th, 2012
There’s always Lake, McHenry, Kane and Dupage Counties plus the states of Indiana and Wisconsin all within a morning’s drive.
Prickwinkle. What’s her first name, Urethra?
Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk
November 20th, 2012
Cheech and Chong?
J Frank Parnell
November 20th, 2012
Wyatt, you are correct sir! I give you my hairpiece.
FreedomCat
November 20th, 2012
Should be called CRook County.
Buffalobob
November 20th, 2012
because nearly 70 percent of the victims don’t have health insurance, What, I thought obamacare was going to take care of that. Or does being shot before qualify as a preexisting condition?
eternal cracker p
November 20th, 2012
Does this mean I can charge Chicago cops an additional $25 per gun while trading in a gun at their cash-for-guns program?
old_oaks
November 20th, 2012
Mega Sports and Rinks just got a windfall!
bunnirabid
November 20th, 2012
won’t obamacare cover that $52,000 of uninsured medical by forcing victims to buy insurance?
FreeMan & Sarah Intend to Defend
November 20th, 2012
Great news folks, now those criminals will think twice before using a gun.
Ten Megaton
November 20th, 2012
When you declare the gun to pay the tax you get arrested for having a gun.
Stranded in Sonoma
November 20th, 2012
This is what I picture when a gun shop owner tries to collect the gun tax when a criminal buys a gun.
Ten Megaton
November 20th, 2012
Next they will want to tax your bowel movements.
Ten Megaton
November 20th, 2012
“The vote follows a violent Chicago summer, when some weekends left multiple people killed and dozens of others injured in shootings, NBC Chicago.com reported. The city’s murder rate is up 25 percent for the year, and the Cook County Jail is near capacity with 9,000-plus inmates.”
And not one of those doing the shooting is gonna pay no goddamn violence tax. What is this moron thinking.
Rick
November 20th, 2012
How is this significantly different from a poll tax?
Or, as mentioned above, a tax on the exercise o free speech?
Seems like the increase in shootings has occurred since Rahm Emanuel took over as mayor. Is he incompetent, or is he just not “allowing a crisis to go to waste”? Or is he just generating data to justify more gun control for Chitcago or the rest of Illinois?
Ten Megaton
November 20th, 2012
That’s like asking a bank robber to pay a theft tax on the way out of the bank.
GI-had Joe
November 20th, 2012
Interesting….the % of uninsured parallels the % of victims that are black. Maybe Miss Periwinkle should advocate for a law that stops blacks from owning guns.
Nutjob
November 20th, 2012
How about a dumbshit tax? Illinoise could pay off its debt and the gunshot hospital bills.
Nutjob
November 20th, 2012
Or better yet a criminal tax.
For every criminal that commits a crime, he pays restitution to the victim and his/her hospital bill.
Sine when did it become societies problem to pay for the victims of criminals hospital bills?
For every crime you commit, your gubment benefits in food shelter, housing, internet phone, blah, blah, blah, gets reduced 50%.
chiefillinicake
November 20th, 2012
must. move. ahead. somehow….
feels. HEAVY.
Bad Brad
November 20th, 2012
Chief, Keep your chin up dude.
Eleanor in Hell
November 21st, 2012
Periwinkle looks like the love child of my affair with Alex Haley in 1946.
Bloodless Coup
November 21st, 2012
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BobK
November 21st, 2012
These politicians in in Chicago and Crook County have their heads up their butts. They think taxes solve everything.
When they earth needs an enema, Chicago is where the tube goes.
Unruly Refugee
November 21st, 2012
I hope she is the last surviving PrickWanker. That is a terrible name.