Rect Pola said:
A tax on videogames to fund important projects is one thing. At face value it's no different than a tax on anything else. A more cynical angle, it's a tax on a big business that they want more out of than sales tax. Yeah, no one likes it, but it's harder to challenge "money has to come from somewhere".
Which makes you wonder why on earth he even add the blaming videogames as the source of two largely anomolus probles. Bulling has been around as long as we know, and there has never been an acceptible source. Obesity is a vastly bigger issue that swallows up excessive gaming among a couple hundred other facets.
To attack videogames says Representative Fourkiller is either displaying ignorance (clumsily spun to look like forethought), or a desire to target games as evil in world when the BIG laws are out of bounds (clumsily spun to look like concern). Attacking videogames as something to be purged or punished used to be an easy lay for the politically minded. But ever since Supreme Court ruled in our favor, they don't have that anymore. I certain some only aimed that way because it was a low hanging fruit, but there must be those with a genuine malice towards games and they have to find someway to use their power against their enemy. Even as superficially as a justification.
On the other hand, pulling the Games are the Problem card in his justification probably tripled the opposition so perhaps it is ignorance.
On the one hand, I would have less problem with a bill just saying "we need monies" than "we need to protect the children". I would ALMOST support such a bill, in some sense.
On the other hand, singling out one form of media, is just stupid and unfair. Even IF I give him that video games are causing bullying and childhood obesity, I have to ask about movies, television, and even books. Those can all lead to one or the other, by all the same logic. Singling out video games for a tax, no matter the reasoning, is just plain wrong.
Of course, I'm no fan of adding a tax to individual products, anyway. Who wants to pay more for their entertainment, right? All around, I dislike this proposed law.
if they're going to propose to tax everything but games "Rated E for everyone"...why not just push the tax against all games. That circumvents having to poorly define violent. At this point the government (all levels in all the states) might as well just bite my shiny metal ass. Also isn't it these same governments that like to subsidize and throw money at the video game industry to bring development to their states...eh of course it doesn't make sense. It's the gov't.
