Reply #63: Where'd he say anything about subsidizing firearms? [View All]

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"Seems to me that (further) subsidizing food, housing, childcare, schools, health care, and so on and on, is going to be a better investment of public funds than subsidizing firearms ownership ... if we really are concerned about individual welfare and the increase in public welfare that enhancing individual welfare in these respects can be expected to bring about."

I thought he was complaining about the Government tacking on lots of expenses to make sure that poor people couldn't get guns legally. There's quite a difference between subsidizing firearms, and not taxing them so that poor people can't afford them.

How is taxing guns in a manner designed to be class discriminatory any different than a poll tax designed to keep poor people from voting?