It's just too bad that Arizona didn't have some common-sense taxes like this. Jared Laugher probably would have re-thought his rampage when he realized it was going to cost him more than fifty dollars! /sarc
If you think about this for even half a heartbeat, it should be apparent that's it's idiotic. This is basic economics that even crackheads can understand: A dollar tax per bullet means the operating cost of filling the cylinder on my revolver goes up to, say, eight bucks. If I can clean out the cash drawer down at the Quick-E-Mart, I will have at least $100. $100-$8=uuuummmmm, errrr, roughly ninety dollars profit. Lawl. On the other hand, I need to shoot, say, 1,000 rounds a year to feel like I'm proficient enough with my HD piece to not pose a danger to myself and my family if I have to use it. So it costs a criminal less than ten dollars to rob my house, rape my family, and murder me, but it costs me over $1,000 per year to defend same. I'm consistently baffled by morons like this guy who think this sort of sh*t will actually work. Maybe he's brain-dead. Think of the headlines!
Baltimore, AP-
In the feel-good story of the summer, the progressive citizens of Baltimore have elected the nation's first persistent-vegetative, big-city mayor. Otis Rolley, communicating via Adam's apple bobs, said today that his first act as mayor will be to establish a one dollar per bullet tax on all ammunition sold in the city. His wife, who has been in a medically-induced coma for seventeen years, stated, "For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of my city." (Remarks were translated by an Associated Press spirit medium.) Mayor Rolley's election was applauded by the zombie head of the Brady Campaign, who was joined in his praise by the Violence Prevention Center, Handgun Control Inc, and several other charitable safety organizations.
At Maryland State Penitentiary, a celebratory mood was in the air, with most inmates engaging in traditional prison riots in a show of solidarity with Mayor Rolley. When asked for his opinion, Louis Crip-Blood, said, "I think it's great that my boy Rolley is going to do something about all them guns in Baltimore. It's been crazy the last few years, man. You break in a bitch's house, you ain't lookin for trouble, just a piece of strange, you know? So you're doing your thing, next thing you know, her or her boyfriend or husband or some other vigilante hauls out a gun and starts shooting! I got two bullets and a prison sentence, dude. What am I supposed to do? Not rape bitches? A guy's gotta get a nut, man!"
Although support for Mayor Rolley was widespread among convicts of all types, it was notably opposed by some. James Patrick Bowditch, President of the National Socialist & Skinhead Society was one of them. Mr. Bowditch said via email this morning that, "Of course we here at the NS&SS oppose any uppity n***** gettin' hisself elected, but specailly this one here. Don't he know that the Jews have all the money? Those damn Hebrews don't care how much it costs to have a gun, but what are us decent white folk supposed to do? We're already fighting an uphill battle for funding, and it won't take the mud races long to figger out that we cain't afford to run them out of town no more. This is going to take us right back to the Dark Ages, with Jews spreading black plague by poisoning the wells of good, upstanding white folks like us."
Whatever your opinion of Mayor Rolley's politics and idealogy, it's hard to avoid being caught up in all the hope and change in the air this summer. Mayor Rolley isn't content to just take all this adulation lying down, however. (Rolley is taking this lying down, he's a vegetable- Ed.) He's already set his sights on Congress. When asked about a possible bid for the Presidency, Mayor Rolley replied with the Adam's apple "wink" that's become his charismatic trademark and said, "Well, that's a pretty tall order. We'll see what the future holds."
AP reporting