Devils advocate, weakening dollar means stronger local manufacturing versus foreign competitors (ala China's currency debasement), and the roughly 60-70% of homeowning Americans who still have a mortgage actually benefit from the debasement of their mortgage.
If you look at the actual wording of the executive order:
Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.
Nothing in this order shall be construed to affect the entitlement of other individuals, including children of lawful permanent residents, to obtain documentation of their United States citizenship.
The only members of the Class in this suit would be a very small group of babies born from mid-Feb to right now. You can't include babies in the future, either, because they don't exist as legal entities (Thanks, pro-choicers!). Talk about one hell of a twisting of logic to try and copy a universal injunction.
They already have that, it's called a 4473 and NICS check, why do you think the gun grabbers sacred cow is muh universal background check? Unless you bought everything you owned private party, the govt, through the FBI's NICS and the FFL's paperwork, damn well has a much better list of what you own then what just the NFA registry would say.
If we are still playing by shell game rules, give the fake win with the NFA, and "conceed" with universal background checks, just like what happened with FOPA and the Hughes amendment. They've already played these games, and much better than what version of events you are insisting on.
This comment is incredibly ignorant...
"They want a list": It's called a Bound Book and all FFLs have to keep one for all 4473s they make until they shutter, then mail it off to the ATF after shuttering. Regardless of NFA status, all firearms + silencers need that 4473 anyways, so there's your list.
"This is why they kept the registration": Except for when the Senate didn't, the OG text had full NFA dereg asides from MGs and DDs, only when the Parlimentarian said no did they revert to the 0 dollar tax.
You're also missing the whole specific legal background of Sonzinsky v. United States, which specifically states that the NFA is only constitutional because there was a tax regime attached to it, which doesn't exist come Jan 1st. Dems were even trying to protect preemtively by making the tax $1 instead of $0. If it wasn't a viable challenge, they wouldn't have bothered with trying to reamend the bill for something that trivial.
How many people will self deport, especially with all the fear porn that we are pulling a Nazi Germany 2.0? The ones with a brain would be seeing that news and try to get the hell out of Dodge.
Propaganda is a powerful thing, after all.
Some level of taxes.
The issue of property taxes is that is inherently a tax on the state of being, not on action. That taxation on the passive existence of the world as it is means it ranks amongst the most heinous, for it demands an endless shuffling of the world's assets for the sake of itself.
Taxation on action, whether it be production and improvement (income, capital gains, and the like) and consumption (sales tax, tariffs, and the like) do not act as such an entropic, devouring force as property taxes do, and as such are much more just, as far as taxes can really be "just".
Hate to be that guy, but if sneaking it through on a budget reconcilliation bill was the "one chance on 2A", then you already lost the long war.
Besides, GOA and friends are all already gearing up for a lawsuit to challenge the NFA by way of the previous Sonzinsky precedent, so screaming "It's so over!" is retarded doomerism.
Congress critter from Ga district 9 has already moved to readd NFA repeal language to the bill.
Part of the issue is that no one can actually agree on what accounting should actually be done to figure out the deficit impact.
CBO figures like the 5 trillion over so many years that the Dems have been pushing act as if the 2017 tax cuts have never happened, and base the estimates off 2016 and earlier tax rates.
If you'd consider those numbers in anyway accurate like Elon might, tariffs are a drop in the bucket in comparision
removed the no tax on tips and overtime.
Not true, the latest revision I can find ( Jun 28) has both under Title 7 Chapter 2.
increased taxes on something (social security payments I think?)
Assuming you mean SS, there has been no changes because of the Byrd Rule, and in fact there currently stands a $6000 deduction for the next 4 years for those over 65.
Please do your research before making baseless assertions, it saves everyone time.
Would have never happened under BBB. Byrd rule restricts ANYTHING related to Social Security from making it into a budget reconciliation bill like the BBB.
As long as either side is pretending the Byrd Rule is a valid thing, it HAS to be it's own seperate bill.
Ah yes, another unelected buraeucrat with obvious political agendas, appointed during His Piss-ship' Rule (Obama in 2012). Senate parlimentarian is another FDR era shitheap, just get rid of the position at this point, the House doesn't need an unelected ruleskeeper, so why does the Senate?
Another Muslim travel ban? /s