NEWS: Video Game Tax Proposed

GEEK: Video Game Tax Proposed

After deciding he can't keep video games away from children, it looks like THE MAN has switched his focus to finding a way to make money off the evil things. A Texas senator, "Chuy" Hinojosa is proposing a tax to the Senate Finance Committee this weekend.

He claims the revenue earned will be used to put money into schools, and if there's one thing you can trust it's a politician from Texas. Here's what he told reporters:

At the risk of editorializing, fuck that. We already only get about 30% of the money we make. Before they start taking money from the kids running over Vice City hookers and using it to help the good children, maybe they could try taking some of the money they got from regular taxes, property taxes, gasoline taxes, sales taxes, and cigarette taxes and seeing what they can scrape together. Here's a trick I invented that maybe the government can use: when I find myself burning through money too fast, I stop acting like a god damn retard.

Then again, the government's probably right. Stealing from kids is a lot easier, and exactly what they deserve for playing video games.

government NOT acting like a goddamn retard? what a radical notion. craziness i tell ya....sheer craziness.

While controlling spending sounds good you have to look at. What do you want them to stop spending money on? If we stop gaving money to over seas countries that alone would solve many problems but of course than we're viewed as unhumanitarian. It's an o win situation.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???????????!!!!!!!!!



FUCK NO!

dude, abandoning humanitarian causes is SO fiscally responsible!

rather than, say, taking away the corporate payoffs and tax cuts and the thousand and one other fiscally irresponsible things the government does.

seriously, kids can't fight back. why wouldn't they steal from them?

It's the same way they had a temporary income tax last almost 100 years and counting.

How about we take about 1/32 of what we spend on the war and use it to ensure our kids don't turn out to be dumbasses?

If they are really serious about school reform the first thing they need to do is to get rid of the third rate goverment school system and to offer some choice to parents so they aren't trapped at schools with teachers that are just there for a paycheck. leave it to a democrat to just try to solve a problem by taking money out of our pockets

FUCK. THAT.

IN THE EAR.

So this will lead to an increase in piracy by approximately what percent?

Texas politician proposes 100 percent game tax
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6143114.html

Texas seems to be bat shit.

This really isn't about making money off them. It's the same principle as the cigarette tax: attempt to discourage people from buying the things by making them more expensive. And it's sure as fuck not about funding the school systems (they have plenty of money to do that already, or would if they quit funnelling the money to people who're making it hand over fist as it is.).

It's a terrible idea and it needs to go.

Yes, exactly; this is what I'm talking about. Finally someone who understands what the world needs.

Just stick a couple of dollars on each new FPS game released, that'd raise millions

1000%

Sweet. By this logic, we can tax absolutely anything.

I suppose I can understand the impulse, but if you're going to do this, fucking have the balls to say that, yes, videogames are detrimental to children at large (I believe they are, by the way - not that they make them more violent, they just further encourage sitting on your ass doing essentially nothing) and while we can't stop them, we can tax them and put the money towards schools to get better gym classes going. I don't really agree with that argument aside from the parenthetical note, but at least then the tax wouldn't come across as totally arbitrary - taxing something for no reason other than that you can.

I'd be good to see a tax introduced for fuckwit parents who buy age restricted games for their kids then moan that it teaches them bad language and violence.
They could use this money to set up training camps to develop responsible parents.

im going to canada to buy my videogames now....my medicine....and even tho i don't smoke, im sure i can get soem good pot too.

having just moved to Texas (big fucking mistake) I can tell you that it is full of retards. check out this asshole

besides the 100% tax on violent video games he also want to inact a:

50% of price sales tax on any beverage sold to humans to be consumed by humans that contains added glucose, fructose, sucrose to the beverage for sale to humans

50% of price of sales tax [GREASE TAX] upon all food prepared by deep-frying or cooking in any form of oil or grease for human consumption

ACTION FEE TAX on any act of abortion on a human female within the State of TEXAS. This tax shall be levied upon and be paid by each individual involved in each act of abortion procedure done or practitioners thereof within the borders of the STATE OF TEXAS. The fee/tax is $10,000.00 each participant per each abortion. The one exception to this rule is when it is medically determined that the mothers life is in danger if the pregnancy is continued. Failure to pay said tax shall be a Class A Felony

100% of price sales cost tax for the sale on all item listed below:
1 . any video game containing any form of human violence.
2. any machine, toy, or cd that uses or includes bodily harm of any human or human image its function or goal or score

what we need is a stupidity tax, or maybe a "christian blowhard" tax. Texas will have more money than it can spend

their god damn salaries

A lot of things encourage sitting on one's ass doing essentially nothing. I think video games are substantially better in that category than, say, television. Because at least the child is interacting, developing skills (even if they're likely functionally useless skills), etc. Not just sitting there as a passive sponge.

All things in moderation, that's all I'm saying.

Most kids don't have much of their own money, anyway. This tax would steal much more from their parents and adults who grew up with video games and still play them (like many of us).