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Isn't all taxation sinful though?
They shouldn't. It's not censorship in the traditional means, but it can create a means to "censor via taxation." Don't like something you find morally objectionable? Tax it out of existence.But then, could they impose a tax on R-rated movies or music with questionable lyrics?
Lego should be heavily taxed, and we need Lego control laws as well. Just try stepping on one barefoot in the dark and you will understand.The money would go into a fund called the "Digital Protection for School Safety Account" that aims to enhance security measures at schools in the wake of the school shootings in Parkland, Florida and Newtown, Connecticut.
Of course! Tax video games to pay for protection from guns!
Next they could implement a tax on linen suits to reduce domestic violence, or a tax on Lego to improve road safety.
Sounds like "socialism", don't it?This is perhaps totally off-topic but one theoretical physicist
suggesting taxing all electronic devices as a way of funding
advanced research into electronics.
Computer games are not all violent. In fact I sometimes play games now and the ones I like feature none to negligible amounts of violence. Are you going to tax things like the Bible too "with violence tax"?We tax alcohol, some places tax prostitution, why not tax
violence too? It might help support law enforcement in the
same way we could help physics research.
Sounds like "socialism", don't it?
Quite different from this proposed law, yes.Again off-topic, but here in Australia we fund roads with a 40 cent fuel tax.
Same thing. With electronic cars we might fund roads with a GPS style
road surcharge.
Well they found no evidence so far (and they tried hard!) that violent games cause people to be violent. I don't think reading books in general causes one to be violent either, even if the books feature violence. I think history books and many holy books would get some huge taxes if they went by a kill count. What would it fund? Probably something completely different, right?But a violence tax is problematic because the link between violence on
screen/games/books etc and real violence cannot be ascertained.
Quite different from this proposed law, yes.
Well they found no evidence so far (and they tried hard!) that violent games cause people to be violent. I don't think reading books in general causes one to be violent either, even if the books feature violence. I think history books and many holy books would get some huge taxes if they went by a kill count. What would it fund? Probably something completely different, right?
Taxes can have one or 2 purposes....Isn't all taxation sinful though?
Explaining the bill last year, Quinn said violent video games might be an element in the rise of school shootings in America. "One factor that may be contributing to the rise in, and intensity of, school violence is the material kids see, and act out, in video games," he said.
I like it.