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Speaker 1: The list goes longer and longer, and so does the

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Speaker 1: the debate over advocates for gun control and gun rights

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Speaker 1: and others. Again, this is just heating up this debate

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Speaker 1: this debate that you don't always see among the immediate

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Speaker 1: post shooting rhetoric, where the states and local tax laws

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Speaker 1: can target firearms and ammunition. So we are happy to

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Speaker 1: welcome back to the show, Jenni. Jennifer McLachlin. She's tax

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Speaker 1: information for professionals. So, Jennifer, Uh, many cities and states

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Speaker 1: now are adding yet not not a sales tax necessarily,

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Speaker 1: to guns ammunition. Why and what are they doing? But

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Speaker 1: we're seeing with states and localities is this attempt to

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Speaker 1: tax firearms ammunition and not just with the basic sales tax,

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Speaker 1: but was an extra exercise tax. And what we're hearing

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Speaker 1: from localities that have actually pass these tax is that

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Speaker 1: these are meant to raise revenue in order to fund

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Speaker 1: programs to address safety concerns and also to reduce crime. Jennifer,

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Speaker 1: what if you could tell us a little detail about

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Speaker 1: what happened in the Northern Marianas Islands. This is a

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Speaker 1: US territory and the governor said that this was something

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Speaker 1: that none of us wanted. They said that we wanted

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Speaker 1: to make it as strict as possible. And it also

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Speaker 1: has to do with a court decision. And what if

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Speaker 1: you could elaborate what happened with the Northern Mariana Islands recently.

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Speaker 1: Is they imposed they enact the legislation imposing a thousand

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Speaker 1: dollar tax on handguns. And actually we've heard that people

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Speaker 1: have thought that this could be a role model for

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Speaker 1: the States, but we're not hearing States locality suggest that

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Speaker 1: they're going to actually follow suit with this example that

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar tax. Well, the idea of these taxes, as

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Speaker 1: I understand it from your excellent story being a story,

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Speaker 1: is that cover the costs of medical bills. Someone gets shocked, right,

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Speaker 1: that involves hospital costs and also um police enforcement. So

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Speaker 1: that's that's part of the logic here. Now, Um, the opposition,

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Speaker 1: for example, the Lawrence Keene from the National Shooting Sports Foundation,

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Speaker 1: UH told you that he says is a disconnect. They're

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Speaker 1: basically arguing this side that that you can put these

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Speaker 1: taxes on, it's not going to cause less mass shootings. Correct.

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Speaker 1: They're saying that they the objective behind the tax not

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Speaker 1: actually connect to the externalities or the consequential costs of

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Speaker 1: gun violence. It's not going to do anything to actually

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Speaker 1: deter violence because criminals are not buying these taxes or

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Speaker 1: excuse me, you do not buying firearms remmunition. They're actually

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Speaker 1: buying them from underground sales. And so in order to

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Speaker 1: And um Mr King had actually said won't. When you

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Speaker 1: do that is through law enforcement, but not through taxation. Now,

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Speaker 1: Chicago also has a tax on firearms. Correct, that's a

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Speaker 1: twenty five dollar per firearm. Correct. And are there other

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Speaker 1: states that are going to in some way use this

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Speaker 1: not necessarily to restrict gun ownership, but as you described earlier,

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Speaker 1: to just raise money. Other than Cook County in Illinois

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Speaker 1: So what is it? Is it a big tax revenue

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Speaker 1: their budgets. Correct And when we speak with Cooke County

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Speaker 1: the information with regard to what the revenue projections for

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Speaker 1: In general, the organizations who conduct research have not been

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Speaker 1: able to actually generate an estimate of what these laws

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Speaker 1: could actually bring in terms of revenue. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer McLaughlin, tax reporter for Bloomberg b NA located in Arlington, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: Turn our attention now to professional politics. John McCormick, our

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Speaker 1: One one poll out today had Clinton at forty three

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