FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION:
JEFF BREEDLOVE (916) 201-8734
APRIL
15 WAS TAX DAY FOR THE IRS AND SENATOR DON PERATA
Overtaxed
Working Men and Women of California Call on Senator Perata to Introduce a Tax Cut – Not a Tax Hike on Our Constitutional Rights
Sacramento,
CA
– Senator Don Perata
(D-East
Bay)
is the latest extremist to attempt to impose a tax on the U.S. Constitution.
It is un-American in the wake of 9-11 that Senator Perata would attempt to impose a tax on Americans
who exercise their Constitutional Rights
In California, millions choose to exercise the right to keep
and bear arms, for any number of reasons, among them to protect their homes, businesses and families in these uncertain
times.
Record numbers of Californians
have taken steps to protect themselves and their families in the wake of 9-11. Senator
Perata has decided that if sales of bullets are up –
why not tax them?
“It is a travesty of
justice that Senator Perata would try to tax bullets. Many Californians recall the riots in Los Angeles in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts. The state failed to deploy the California National
Guard for several days due to political disagreements. The
LAPD was reduced to mere bystanders as thousands looted,
raped and burned in the city. The
nation recalls that small business owners - most of them Asian, Hispanic and African-American - were forced to
stand in front of their businesses with their personal guns to attempt to keep out the looters,” stated Kathryn
Ballou with Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org).
“Now, Senator Perata wants to tax the ability of Californians to protect
and defend themselves.
It is an outrage. There are a lot of small business owners, hunters
and just plain, honest taxpayers in the Senator’s home district and the rest of the State, who will lose money
if the Senator gets his power-grab tax enacted. There
is not one single criminal who will pay this tax. Once
again, an extremist attempts to tax the hardworking men and women as they exercise their Constitutional Rights
instead of addressing the real issue of getting criminals off of the streets to keep our families, homes and businesses
safe,” continued Ms. Ballou.
“Only in California
– taxing bullets to help emergency rooms makes about as much sense as taxing soft drinks to fight fat – extremist
utopia,” concluded Ms. Ballou.
With more than 650,000
members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right
to Keep and
Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee
is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots
organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
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