I live in the South and I have written many times about the lunacy that seems to invade the mental process in this section of the country. recently a friend and reader sent me an email about a story that she thought was totally bizarre.
Paul McCrory won’t go deer hunting until November, but Louisiana’s new ‘‘sales tax holiday’’ on hunting equipment makes this weekend his best opportunity to shop for bullets and a new rifle.
Gun shop owners report customers like McCrory are enthusiastically planning to stock up on bullets, shells, shotguns, rifles and handguns — all of which will be sold without the 6 percent state sales tax or local sales taxes Friday through Sunday. That means a 9-percent tax break for Baton Rouge shoppers, several of whom said they planned to take full advantage.
The tax break is a natural fit for the state known as ‘‘Sportsman’s Paradise,’’ and debuts at the same time dove hunting season starts. The inspiration for the ‘‘Annual Louisiana Second Amendment Weekend Tax Holiday’’ came from South Carolina, the first and only other state with such a law. South Carolina introduced its tax holiday over two days last year and is scheduled to lift taxes again in November on guns and bullets.
As was true in South Carolina, the Louisiana proposal faced little opposition in the Legislature, where many members campaigned as pro-firearm and want to avoid angering the National Rifle Association and other gun lobbies.
But Louisiana’s tax break goes much farther than South Carolina’s: Sales taxes are waived on any item that could be used for hunting or fishing, including clothes, shoes and bags. Also included: off-road vehicles, airboats, flat-bottomed boats called pirogues, animal feed, firearm and archery accessories, range finders, binoculars, knives, decoys, duck blinds, chairs, ear plugs, holsters, belts and slingshots.
While some states are giving a tax holiday on school clothes and supplies or on hurricane prep supplies…..Louisiana has decided that the best place for a tax break is in the buying of guns. Just like most of the Southern states…all tax benefits are for those who need them the least….a total ignoring of the poor and unemployed…..they refuse to live in reality that tax reveue is the way states pay their bills….but they continue to have budgetary problems because of the stupidity of their elected officials.
The South has shown to be still living in the early 20 th century…..dislike of a black pres……anger at health reform even though most of those angered are dependent on the government for their present health care.
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