Colorado becomes first state to approve excise tax on guns and ammunition via ballot measure

[Pivo]

Meanwhile in Colorado.
Colorado voters approved Proposition KK on Election Day, adding a 6.5% excise tax on gun and ammunition sales.
Colorado is not the first state to impose such a tax, but it is the first one to do so via a citizen’s vote.
https://www.ksut.org/news/2024-11-19/co ... ot-measure

[hikeaz]

Related? "Free" money has to come from working taxpayers. https://www.commonsenseinstituteus.org/ ... r-migrants

[herdbull]

Colorado is not the first state to impose such a tax, but it is the first one to do so via a citizen’s vote.

let me fix this for you...... Denver citizen's votes...... there, it's fixed.

[chumley]

@herdbull I don't have a strong opinion on this measure one way or the other, but you may know that I occasionally vote for facts and accuracy. I assume you understand how elections work. The measure was not on the ballot in Denver. It was on the ballot in Colorado. Thus, it was passed by Colorado citizens, not Denver citizens. Because that's how statewide elections work.

Moreover, since you apparently didn't actually look at the results before commenting, the measure was passed by a majority of voters in TWENTY-ONE counties in Colorado (yes, Denver was one of them). In fact, only 15% of the 1.6 million votes in favor of this ballot measure were cast in Denver.

Other counties whose citizens voted in favor of the measure included those with the metropolis cities of Salida, Ouray, Gunnison, Durango, Rifle, Milner, and Leadville, among others. So perhaps it was a measure that was more geographically supported across statewide populations than you realized?

Deep-dive for yourself:
https://results.enr.clarityelections.co ... etail/4009

[Pivo]

you may know that I occasionally vote for facts and accuracy.

the metropolis cities of Salida, Ouray, Gunnison, Durango, Rifle, Milner, and Leadville, among others

[herdbull]

@herdbull I don't have a strong opinion on this measure one way or the other, but you may know that I occasionally vote for facts and accuracy. I assume you understand how elections work. The measure was not on the ballot in Denver. It was on the ballot in Colorado. Thus, it was passed by Colorado citizens, not Denver citizens. Because that's how statewide elections work.

Sorry but you're wrong. I lived in Colorado for 5 years. Everything goes through Denver. The liberal cesspool that it is. Denver and it's "citizens" control what happens in the state.