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Video Game Tax Proposed

Submitted by Seanbaby

Edited by Christopher

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:

"You have all these kids buying video games, and sometimes they are good, some are bad and that's not my call, but I think that we can generate [money] to put toward the schools they go to."



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.

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jrave

jrave

Italy
January 2004

APR 28, 2006 08:42 PM


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.



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

Knights_Cross

Knights_Cross

Naperville, IL
March 2003

APR 28, 2006 09:03 PM

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.

StarBelliedBoy

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA
December 2003

APR 28, 2006 09:11 PM

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



FUCK NO!
mad mad mad

fountainofdreams

fountainofdreams

Batavia, IL
January 2005

APR 28, 2006 09:19 PM

Knights_Cross said:
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.



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.

fountainofdreams

fountainofdreams

Batavia, IL
January 2005

APR 28, 2006 09:20 PM

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

taco_almighty

taco_almighty

Fayetteville, NC
December 2005

APR 28, 2006 09:31 PM

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

_Sarah_

_Sarah_

Kalamazoo, MI
January 2003

APR 28, 2006 09:46 PM

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?

posthummusly

posthummusly

Conyers, GA
January 2006

APR 28, 2006 09:55 PM

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

desidia

desidia

Reunion
September 2002

APR 28, 2006 11:00 PM

FUCK. THAT.

IN THE EAR.

AkiraLi

AkiraLi

Norristown, PA
March 2003

APR 28, 2006 11:17 PM

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

5371W

5371W

Elizabethtown, KY
May 2005

APR 28, 2006 11:54 PM

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

Texas seems to be bat shit.

captainoats

captainoats

Bronxville, NY
September 2005

APR 29, 2006 12:57 AM

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

APR 29, 2006 01:00 AM

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.

Vestril

Vestril

Coronado, CA
February 2003

APR 29, 2006 01:09 AM

captainoats said:



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

Hunkpapa

Hunkpapa

United Kingdom
June 2004

APR 29, 2006 02:31 AM

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

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