{"id":1404,"date":"2024-06-19T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T18:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2024-06-19T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T18:49:59","slug":"curbing-gun-violence-with-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/curbing-gun-violence-with-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Time to Curb Gun Violence with Taxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol, tobacco and guns have a lot in common.\u00a0 All of them cause significant harm to society, and they also are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/the-bureau-and-the-bureau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">associated<\/a>\u00a0with criminal organizations seeking to profit from illicit markets.\u00a0 But there is one big difference:\u00a0 Tobacco and alcohol are subject to excise taxes, which reduce purchases by increasing their cost, and guns are not &#8212; not until now, anyway.\u00a0 Now, California is preparing to become the first state ever to charge an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/e\/excisetax.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excise tax<\/a>\u00a0on guns and ammunition that one expert estimates\u00a0 will reduce gun sales by up to 44 percent and make a big dent in gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>California is about to tax guns more like alcohol and tobacco \u2212 and that could put a dent in gun violence<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/california-is-about-to-tax-guns-more-like-alcohol-and-tobacco-and-that-could-put-a-dent-in-gun-violence-229431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/theconversation.com\/california-is-about-to-tax-guns-more-like-alcohol-and-tobacco-and-that-could-put-a-dent-in-gun-violence-229431<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781469677248\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol, tobacco and guns have a lot in common.\u00a0 All of them cause significant harm to society, and they also are\u00a0associated\u00a0with criminal organizations seeking to profit from illicit markets.\u00a0 But there is one big difference:\u00a0 Tobacco and alcohol are subject to excise taxes, which reduce purchases by increasing their cost, and guns are not &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/curbing-gun-violence-with-taxes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Is it Time to Curb Gun Violence with Taxes?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}