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Gun Control & RKBA

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2. It's a tax that directly targets the lawful exercise of a constitutional right.

Tue Aug 25, 2015, 08:43 PM

Aug 2015

Poll taxes were one such punitive tax. So was the tax on printer's ink that was struck down by SCOTUS in Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. v. Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue, 1983.

http://law.jrank.org/pages/12734/Minneapolis-Star-v-Minnesota-Commissioner-Revenue.html

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New NRA Talking Point Compares Seattle's New "Gun Violence Tax" To A "Poll Tax" [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP

Yes. Yes, it is. blueridge3210 Aug 2015 #1

They courts will never need to decide the constitutional issue. branford Aug 2015 #3

Media matters Misfire. beevul Aug 2015 #4

What other rights should we be taxed for??? ileus Aug 2015 #5

Seattle has discovered a great way melm00se Aug 2015 #7

That's what Chicago did. DonP Aug 2015 #8

I know that this might be out of your scope melm00se Aug 2015 #10

Thanks n/t melm00se Aug 2015 #13

Correction to OP: Constitutional talking point. There, all fixed. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #11