4. PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES 4.1 22-045 Gun Harm Reduction Ordinance. - TO BE HEARD AT 6:00 P.M. Recommendation: Consider approving an ordinance amending Title 10 of the San José Municipal Code to add Part 6 to Chapter 10.32 to reduce gun harm by requiring gun owners to obtain and maintain liability insurance and to provide for a fee to apply to gun harm reduction programs. [More]
[Via Jess]
Don't I remember that the exercise of constitutional rights cannot be taxed?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, here it is.
A state may not impose a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the federal constitution... The power to impose a license tax on the exercise of these freedoms is indeed as potent as the power of censorship which this Court has repeatedly struck down... a person cannot be compelled 'to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the constitution.'
--MURDOCK V. PENNSYLVANIA 319 US 105 (1942)