TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA’S ‘SECOND AMENDMENT WEEKEND’
If you’ve been wanting to buy a new gun but don’t want to give the government your hard-earned money doing so, then today’s your day. For the first time in a long time, you can do both of those things at the same time… legally.
The state is offering an unusual perk to shoppers: no sales tax on handguns, rifles and shotguns.
The so-called “Second Amendment Weekend” is thanks to a little-debated amendment legislators tacked on this summer to a tax break for energy-efficient appliances.
While the energy-efficiency measure doesn’t go into effect until next year, on Friday and Saturday gun buyers won’t have to pay state and local sales taxes that can total 8 percent. Taxes still apply to ammunition and accessories.
“We are a gun-owning-tradition state, a hunting-tradition state,” said Republican state Rep. Mike Pitts, a retired police officer who introduced the proposal and has promoted other pro-gun legislation. [AP]
This honestly might be the most American thing of all time — buying guns and not paying taxes. I’m seriously considering going out and buying a gun. Not because I need one, but just because this is so American.
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I can dig that pork.
Adam,
Do you think that funding for the troops in Iraq flies out of Dick Cheney’s butt? Ironic how so many of the Grover Norquist drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd were first in line to commit the U.S. military to a $10 billion a month endless boondoggle. Or first in line when their stock portfolio shrunk by 50%.
Does Mike Pitts think his police officer pay, pension, and other benefits were put under his pillow by the Tooth Fairy? I sincerely thank Mr. Pitts for his TAXPAYER FUNDED service.
Maybe you’re a Leona Helmsly conservative (”Only the little people pay taxes.”).
Or a Joe The Plumber American, happy to suck on the taxpayer nipple when you’re down and evade your fair share of taxes when things are going your way?
I’m not for high taxes, I’m for taxes just high enough to cover the the services that we, the taxpayers, demand: police, fire, judiciary, national defense, infrastructure, regulatory protection, and essential services (people investments) that the private sector has failed to provide, such as education and healthcare for all Americans.