It's time to penalize those who don't own guns with a tax....

[matefrio]

Great idea......

A Modest Proposal « Hot Air

First, the government needs to issue a mandate that all households must own at least one firearm.

Besides — gun ownership is actually mentioned in the Constitution, unlike health care, which isn’t. Obviously, that means that the federal government should be funding gun ownership.

Don’t want to own a gun? Hey, no worries. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says citizens have the right to refuse to comply with mandates. The government will just seize some of your cash in fines, that’s all. Isn’t choice great? Those fines will go toward federal credits that will fund firearm purchases for the less well off, so that they can protect their homes as adequately as those who can afford guns on their own. Since they generally live in neighborhoods where police response is appreciably worse than their higher-earning fellow Americans, they need them more anyway. Besides — gun ownership is actually mentioned in the Constitution, unlike health care, which isn’t. Obviously, that means that the federal government should be funding gun ownership.

 

[tx_transplant]

Great idea! atriot:

 

[itchin]

I'd be all for the affordable guns n ammo act.

 

[Tejano Scott]

Haha, throw tea in the harbor!

 

[TXARGUY]

I'd be all for the affordable guns n ammo act.

+1

 

[Mic]

That's great. I really wish a congressman would introduce this bill just to completely mock this the commies who have done what they have.

 

[GPtwins]

Do we get money back from the fed for having more than one?


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[Texastransplant]

Great idea, have friends from Switerland and love hearing his stories about having to train and have a full auto in the home.

 

[lalonguecarabine]

Do we get money back from the fed for having more than one?

If so, TR is about to become a billionaire!

 

[RetArmySgt]

There are a few cities with laws like that already.

 

[kris lee]

I'd be all for the affordable guns n ammo act.

+1

 

[macshooter]

LOL. That's great. I love it when the right hi-jacks the left's language.

Now that the Roberts Court has affirmed that the government has the power to mandate purchases of private goods and services as long as it’s structured as a tax, I propose that we put this new-found authority in the service of an explicit Constitutional right. For far too long, too many Americans have suffered from an inequal distribution of firearms, despite the Second Amendment’s express exhortation to “keep and bear arms,” in large part because income inequality in this nation has kept the poor and working classes from having the proper protection for themselves and their loved ones. We need to end this disparity now by applying the ObamaCare model immediately.

 

[FlashBang]

It doesn't have to be at the Fed level, individual States have the authority to tax as well. So any State could introduce and pass a bill requiring every homeowner to own a firearm and 1000 rounds of ammunition, and tax those who do not. The SCROTUM, I mean SCOTUS, would have no choice but to uphold it as legal since they have established precedent.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

Genius!

I'd still vote no. Government intervention - homey don't play that!

 

[stdreb27]

Better yet, since it is a right as an American, the gubbermint aught to provide it free.

 

[matefrio]

Better yet, since it is a right as an American, the gubbermint aught to provide it free.

Please explain how the government provides anything "For Free"?

 

[matefrio]

By the way, as a history lesson of "A Modest Proposal"

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick.

It was a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

He has some pretty disturbing quotes in that text.

Almost as disturbing as Obamacare.

 

[midnightyell]

If you want to couch it in a manner that makes it sound more legitimate, try this:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state..."
could indicate legal grounds for enacting mandatory membership for able-bodied citizens in the Texas State Guard Reserves and, as such, all TSG reservists must maintain basic firearms proficiency.

Kinda stole the idea from the Swiss and their mandatory service and subsequent proficiency requirements.
But the US had a law like this for awhile:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=001/llsl001.db&recNum=394


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[Tejano Scott]

your link doesn't work