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"The council also voted to require gun owners to pay an estimated $25 fee, which would be collected by a yet-to-be-named nonprofit and doled out to community gr
by biomcgary 5y ago
"The council also voted to require gun owners to pay an estimated $25 fee, which would be collected by a yet-to-be-named nonprofit and doled out to community groups to be used for firearm safety education and training, suicide prevention and domestic violence and mental health services."
I find these government-NGO partnerships disturbing. The government mandates a tax, but a private entity collects it and decides who spends it? Elected officials really like to avoid responsibility for the consequences of their votes.
- earleybird 5y agoOtherwise known as PPP, Public Private Partnerships. Dubious in all the ways you might imagine.
- djbebs 5y agoThat's not what this is. This is a long established concept known as tax farming.
- profunctor 5y agoThat's not what tax farming is.
- earleybird 5y agoGiven what I've seen with P3's in my neck of the woods, I can see there could be a high degree overlap to the point that P3s are much like the private Roman tax collectors - which had its problems with corruption way back then. So it was, so it is.