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zbdent

(35,392 posts) Mon Mar 11, 2013, 04:10 PM Mar 2013

How to fund the military in one simple step ...

bullet tax.

Let the sale of bullets have an extra tax, and the tax collected goes to funding the military.

You can avoid the tax by buying your bullets ... while serving in the military.

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How to fund the military in one simple step ... (Original Post) zbdent Mar 2013 OP

Only would work as a supplementary measure. TimberValley Mar 2013 #1

Heck, the Republicans and the "liberally-biased media" sure are doing a great job zbdent Mar 2013 #2

TimberValley

(318 posts)

1. Only would work as a supplementary measure.

Reply to zbdent (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2013, 12:06 PM

Mar 2013

If this is just a supplemental way to fund the military, then maybe this would generate a few million extra dollars.

There's no way you could fund even a severely scaled-back US military on ammo sales tax, though. The math just wouldn't add up.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)

2. Heck, the Republicans and the "liberally-biased media" sure are doing a great job