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Re: You Can't Prevent The Next Sandy Hook Incident |
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Posted by SMAZ on Wed Dec 19 19:58:00 2012, in response to Re: You Can't Prevent The Next Sandy Hook Incident, posted by 3-9 on Wed Dec 19 00:35:13 2012. While I consider licensing for possession and ownership of a simple firearm to be unconstitutional, until a time when licensing laws are struck down, any such fees should be no more than the what is necessary to cover the expenses for the issuing bureaucracy.The power to tax is the power to destroy. Constitutional rights cannot be destroyed by government or anyone else by neither direct legislation nor by indirect means. The Government has the authority to increase cigarette taxes in order to discourage the otherwise legal activity of smoking. The Government has to power to increase fuel taxes beyond what is necessary to construct and maintain transportation infrastructure if its goal is to encourage conservation and energy independence. The Government DOES NOT have the power to tax the exercise of an individual's constitutional rights. Excessive fees on gun registration or licencing would be akin to poll taxes for voting or the notorious Stamp Act of 1765. |
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