Orlando: Bloomberg and Joyce using YOUR tax dollars to pay for campaign against guns.

The Antigun mayors should join Bloomer's campaign against the big Gulp.

I here that organized crime is tooling up for Gulp-easys in NYC. Thus, the NFA was a good thing as Thompsons might be used in fights over Gulp territories.

Bloomers is a blah, blah.
 
How could you possibly be upset over this perfectly valid use of tax payer money?

(for those who missed it, that's sarcasm )
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OMG! Some of my tax money may be funding anti-gun programs and organizations? That is a horror, an outrage!

Wait a minute. My local, state, and federal taxes help pay for every last government funded cause that I don't support. Even worse, my federal taxes don't just go to domestic programs. Apparently, I am also helping to fund a variety of governments around the world that I do not wish to support. Not only are those governments funded, but in some cases, I am also helping pay for the US troops to protect those governments.

Even worse than that, my tax money pays the salaries of anti-gun lawmakers!!!

That the MAIG program is partially funded by tax money really isn't the issue here, is it? I can't imagine that people would somehow believe that their tax dollars only fund programs and people that they support.
 
DNS, nobody likely believes that.

What some of us might believe, though, is that since our tax dollars are being used for it, we have much more leverage to work against it than we would against, say, the Brady Campaign which is privately funded.

First, as voters we can derail it.

Second, as a publicly supported institution, it falls under more scrutiny from the courts.

Neither factor is insignificant.
 
Additionally, while your elected representatives are elected by a vote of the people, this is not an elected position. This is ostensibly a city employee who is also a lobbyist for gun control, and not just any gun control measures, but fairly strict ones aimed at legal ownership rather than illegal possession.

Certainly in a representative republic your tax dollars will be used to support programs you may oppose; but in a representative republic it is also your right to make that complaint to your representative and to replace said representative if they won't work with you.

So, yes, it is an issue. Not the only issue by far; but we should understand the process by which organizations can and do use our own money against us (CDC-funded studies of gun control being a great example of this until Congress put a halt to it).
 
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