Tax-Free Guns on Black Friday weekend in SC .. WTF!!?

[DemoTex]

TVs and laptops won't be the only hot items in South Carolina this Black Friday. The state is offering an unusual perk to shoppers: no sales tax on handguns, rifles and shotguns.

The so-called "Second Amendment Weekend" is thanks to a little-debated amendment legislators tacked on this summer to a tax break for energy-efficient appliances.

While the energy-efficiency measure doesn't go into effect until next year, on Friday and Saturday gun buyers won't have to pay state and local sales taxes that can total 8 percent. Taxes still apply to ammunition and accessories.

"We are a gun-owning-tradition state, a hunting-tradition state," said Republican state Rep. Mike Pitts, a retired police officer who introduced the proposal and has promoted other pro-gun legislation. (More at Fox link)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458225,00.html

South Carolina was recently named the state with the highest rate of violent crime in the nation, and everyone in the state knows it. I know Fundies and Wing-nuts who, like me, are furious over this sneaky action by the South Carolina Legislature.

The gun issue aside, the state is in a severe budget crisis with big cutbacks in public services and public education (including all state colleges and universities). WTF are these assholes thinking? WTF is next? Tax-free weekends on beer, wine, and whiskey? Tax-free holidays on cigs?

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