{"id":2869,"date":"2012-10-31T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/10\/31\/it-is-still-taxing-fundamental-rig\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:53","slug":"it-is-still-taxing-fundamental-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2869","title":{"rendered":"It Is Still Taxing A Fundamental Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14935,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.chicagotribune.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/breaking\\\/chi-preckwinkle-drops-bullet-tax-keeps-gun-tax-20121031,0,3962662.story&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.chicagotribune.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/breaking\\\/chi-preckwinkle-drops-bullet-tax-keeps-gun-tax-20121031,0,3962662.story&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14936,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pagunblog.com\\\/2012\\\/10\\\/09\\\/taxing-a-right&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has backed off of her idea to levy a 5 cents per cartridge &#8220;violence tax&#8221;. However, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-preckwinkle-drops-bullet-tax-keeps-gun-tax-20121031,0,3962662.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>, Preckwinkle still plans to go forward with her tax on firearms. This was part of a grand compromise with some Democrats on the County Board who were balking at the proposed Cook County Firearm and Firearm Ammunition Tax Ordinance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The compromise was negotiated over several days with Commissioners John<br \/>\nFritchey and Edwin Reyes, both Chicago Democrats, who had balked at the<br \/>\nguns and ammo taxes.<\/p>\n<p>                                        In exchange for their support,<br \/>\nPreckwinkle agreed to create a $2 million fund to combat gun violence.<br \/>\nFritchey had proposed dedicating $1.4 million to anti-gun violence<br \/>\nefforts. She also agreed to exempt law-enforcement officers from having<br \/>\nto pay the tax, which helped convince Reyes to support the plan.<\/p>\n<p>An<br \/>\n undetermined portion of the $2 million would be granted to \u201cnon-profits<br \/>\n with a track record of effective violence prevention and community<br \/>\noutreach.\u201d About $100,000 would be used to crack down on illegal gun<br \/>\npurchases. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The budget director for the county estimates that the tax on firearms will raise $600,000. If she is correct, this works out to 120,000 firearms purchases annually in Cook County. Using my iPhone&#8217;s FFL Finder app, I count approximately 35 licensed firearms dealers within Cook County. This works out to sales of over 3,400 firearms per shop over the course of a year. Frankly, I think the budget director is dreaming if she thinks there will be this many sales in the county in a year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/2012\/10\/09\/taxing-a-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As Sebastian noted back when this first came up<\/a>, there is significant Supreme Court precedent saying that taxing a fundamental right in order to discourage its use is unconstitutional. Given the legislative history of this ordinance and the public pronouncements of Ms. Preckwinkle, I don&#8217;t think attorneys such as Alan Gura or David Sigale would have to go far to find sufficient cause to get an injunction. If I were a taxpayer in Cook County, I&#8217;d be pretty upset to see my tax dollars going to fund the court case that passage of this tax will undoubtedly engender.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has backed off of her idea to levy a 5 cents per cartridge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3546,3547,3548],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cook-county-board","tag-toni-preckwinkle","tag-violence-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}