I see people here comparing tax credits and asking if that is a tax on the rest of us for not buying the item to get the tax credit.
The answer is "No." The tax credits come from the general fund and are not taken from other individuals for that specific purpose alone.
As to firearms owners, there is no tax for not owning a firearm. There are only taxes for doing so -- sales, Pittman-Robertson, etc., -- not to mention hunting licenses, fees, and penalties for not having a license
while hunting. There is no tax on others for our ownership of firearms, only benefits derived from our ownership such as Pittman-Robertson.
The fact is that there
could be taxes levied for, say, one not owning an electric car. Those who own petroleum fed vehicles would be taxed at the pump. But even if they called it a penalty for non-ownership of an electric vehicle it is
still a tax on the
ownership of a petroleum fed vehicle. So even if they stated that it is a tax against those who fail to participate in one activity it is
still a tax on those who choose to participate in another.
The only way that the type of tax cited above would be a non-participatory tax would be if it were a direct tax on everyone who does not own an electric vehicle -- even those who do not own a vehicle at all.
See the difference?
Now, as for a tax on the non-ownership of a firearm; anyone see that one coming any time soon or even withing the bounds of time eternal?