The latest from that great hypocrite Don Perata: Calif. lawmaker wants 5-cent tax on every bullet to support trauma centers.
Perata said there was plenty of precedent for taxing bullets, noting that California has been taxing smokers 50-cents for each pack of cigarettes since 1998 to help pay for health and education programs.
Never mind that most of this tax would be paid by the people least likely to hurt someone with their bullets, i.e. private citizens who go to the range and practice.
California leads the nation in numbers of youth gun suicides and homicides.
Gee, does that mean gun control in California – already one of the five or so most repressive states – isn’t working? Or only that California is a big place?
Google cites 28 pages for perata+hypocrite, but not all of them apply the epithet to Perata himself.