Armstrong: Punishing the innocent with Colorado’s Proposition KK

By Ari Armstrong | Complete Colorado

Imagine the screams from the left if, instead of facing a ballot measure to allow for tax-subsidized abortions, Colorado voters instead saw a measure to tax abortions to fund mental health for women dealing with matters pertaining to fertility, pregnancy, and raising children. “This is punishing people for exercising their basic rights,” we would hear. “This is not how we should fund essential services,” the chorus would chant. And the critics would be right.

But, when it comes to new taxes on guns and ammunition, the same people who would don sackcloth and ashes over an abortion tax are all cheers and grins. Why the double standard?

Abortion good, guns bad, is the basic orientation of our dominantly Democratic legislature. We get more of what we subsidize and less of what we tax, says basic economics. So, obviously, Democrats want to subsidize abortion and tax guns and ammunition. The gun tax is just one more instance in the drip-drip-drip of legislation eroding our constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

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