Comments on: Ammo tax proposal to support Illinois trauma centers gets mixed reaction

By: truckertom

truckertom — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:25:03 +0000

great to read Dave’s comments. We need to hear people speak the truth about rfd. pls keep em coming!

By: John

John — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:47:41 +0000

This is yet another “lets fund Chicago by stealing from the rest of Illinois” scam.

Lets start with Illegal gun owners, aka gang bangers. They buy their equuipment illegally, they won’t pay one penny of tax. Next, the legal gun owners in Chicago. For starters, they probably don’t shoot very much seeing as they live in a city,and that city has outlawed guns, and shooting ranges for decades. Shooting ranges are still a problem there.

That leaves law-abiding downstater’s. We suckers will pay 99.9% of this tax, of which 99.9% will go to Chicago.

I hate this state, and WILL leave as soon as possible.

By: Steven Morrow

Steven Morrow — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:01:14 +0000

It would seem that the politicians in Chicago, where you can’t own a gun, are still having problems with guns and need the money from the legal owners of guns to pay for the problems they created when they took away the right to own a gun in their city. A penney now, a nickle next year, a dime the year after – before long we’ll have to be as criminal as the criminals in order to afford to buy ammunition. They use the story of a child who had to ride to a trauma center nine miles away. How many of us in this state actually live closer than that to a trauma center?

By: dave

dave — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:59:10 +0000

Wow, glad I moved to Texas. Illinois is the laughing stock of the country. Tax everything including ammo. This is nothing more then an attack on the 2nd amendment. Texas is great, no state income tax, low taxes. My 90k home in rfd just sold for 39k wow and guess what? My taxes on that 39k home is more then what I pay on a 250k home on acreaage here. You can’t tax yourself out of financial problems, doing so kills it. Besides it’s a tax on legal law abiding citizens. Nice to buy guns over the counter not having to wait, not to shovel snow and not to have stupid politicans running your life. Folks here are awesome, tip their hat to the ladies, speak with respect and yes sir yes ma’am. Live is good glad to be out of that worst state in the union. Glad not to be hiding with a gun behind my windows and druggies shoot it out, as the Mayor steals from the city where politicans line their pockets. Wake up and get out of that city, the teachers, police and fireunions will bleed you dry as you stuggle to make 30k paying their retirements of 80k plus.

By: Scottish McMillan

Scottish McMillan — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:12:00 +0000

This tax has an agenda, and that’s to further criminalize people who DON’T intend to shoot other people. People are shot by people for whom laws do not matter, and taxes are seldom, if ever, paid. This may start at a peny per bullet, but once this gets rolling, nothing will stop it from going up. The people who shoot for hobby and for hunting are paying for criminal behavior they did not themselves display. THAT is my problem with this tax, and all others like it. Gun laws affect people who FOLLOW them, who are also NOT the people who INSPIRE them to be created in the first place. This is just backwards. You want to tax something to support trauma centers? Tax criminals who commit crimes with guns. But NOT with money – they won’t have it anyway – make them WORK at trauma centers.