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10-20-2012, 05:17 PM
Chicago Figures Out Cause of Homicides: Untaxed Bullets
Chicago residents worried about the city’s soaring homicide rate can rest easy. After painstaking consideration during what was no doubt many rounds of double martinis, officials are at last ready with an answer.
Just tax bullets, says Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. She has announced she will submit a budget proposal next week that would slap a nickel tax on each bullet sold and $25 per firearm.
Chicago’s crime families immediately went into conference to examine the results of Preckwinkle’s proposal on their budgets and announced they would have to cut back gun murders by at least 15 percent and shift some more business into the concrete galoshes department to compensate.
Clearly, officials have the bad guys on the run.
So far this year, Chicago has racked up 409 homicides compared with 324 during the same period in 2011.
Officials estimate the tax would bring in about $1 million to the cash-strapped city, but denied that the proposal was just about creating more revenue.
Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/7580/chicago-figures-out-cause-of-homicides-untaxed-bullets/#ixzz29t4ai2xv
Was not sure whether to put this here or in the humor area..
Both seem appropriate..
Chicago residents worried about the city’s soaring homicide rate can rest easy. After painstaking consideration during what was no doubt many rounds of double martinis, officials are at last ready with an answer.
Just tax bullets, says Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. She has announced she will submit a budget proposal next week that would slap a nickel tax on each bullet sold and $25 per firearm.
Chicago’s crime families immediately went into conference to examine the results of Preckwinkle’s proposal on their budgets and announced they would have to cut back gun murders by at least 15 percent and shift some more business into the concrete galoshes department to compensate.
Clearly, officials have the bad guys on the run.
So far this year, Chicago has racked up 409 homicides compared with 324 during the same period in 2011.
Officials estimate the tax would bring in about $1 million to the cash-strapped city, but denied that the proposal was just about creating more revenue.
Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/7580/chicago-figures-out-cause-of-homicides-untaxed-bullets/#ixzz29t4ai2xv
Was not sure whether to put this here or in the humor area..
Both seem appropriate..