I read this as "Government expects magical boom of item that specific target market already buys"
Honey, I finally bought that gun suppressor! We don't even own a gun, let alone a gun this fits on Yes, but it was ~~~~~~Tax Exempt~~~~~~
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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Repubs used to call Democrats the "tax and spend party". The GOP is the "don't tax just spend anyway party".
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Thank Glob that those tariffs won't affect gun and silencer prices. 🙃
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Taxing gun suppressors as a means of gun control was dumb. Eliminating the tax was dumb. People's fascination with mid-20th century military technology and their self-obsessive "I'm the PC in a video game" mentality is sicko shit. The whole American experiment in lobbyist-guided gun control legislation is such a fucking joke.
Just reading about it never fails to blackpill me.
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I agree, thank "god" (or appropriate figurative substitute, it's all fake anyway) that bullshit tax is gone (effective jan 1 iirc).