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Sheleigha
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Things like cigarettes with known harm to people, have extra taxes. Entertainment like games and movies in the hands of various people, including many who ARE perfectly fine and have no violent tendencies! Sure, let's tax that for more $$!! Gotta pay off that national debt one Call of Duty at a time!
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CrownKlown
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Joe Biden's intellect and education don' t leave him qualified to comment on whether 1 plus 1 equals 2, let alone on legal and taxation matters.
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FenixFiesta
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Taxes should not be used as some sort of "hammer against a percieved social problem", once taxes start becomeing some sort of indirect thought police it gets into some politicians heads to as such they invent taxes on EVERYTHING they don't like and then a decade later we are in crazy town with taxes for not slouching in public.
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Davy0
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You know what I've yet to hear, "I'm sorry, I wasn't there for my kid wasn't watching him well enough because I was doing my own thing, my irresponsibility led my kid to thinking they could do what they wanted.", and who is this supposed to be from? "The Parents".
I have to get screwed for what their kids do; hell I used to live in a bloody ghetto and never touched a gun let alone thought about killing someone with one. I play violent videogames everyday, and that is not the reason for my anger. Stupid people are. And oh look, stupid people want a tax. How thoughtful... |
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tuxedocat
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Result for comprehensive (massively expensive) study: playing video games too much might make people fat.
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the_windcaster
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Instead of cigarettes, I think alcohol might be a better analogy on more fronts:
Many people use alcohol to no ill effect - they drink in responsible portions and suffer no long-term damages from it, yet that is taxed by the government and no one complains because that's just how they've done it for a while now. Meanwhile, some binge drink and get sick, or get drunk and harm others, or have a natural tendency to become addicted to it, or over heavy long-term exposure one might develop liver disease. On the OTHER hand, we've also tried outright banning alcohol as a recreational substance before... which didn't go so well. At least they're not seriously talking about that at the moment. |
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victor viper
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Just one more example of an idiot politician engaging in pandering.
While we're brainstorming new taxes, I've got great one. Tax campaign contributions with a 95% marginal tax rate on anything over some threshold amount, say $100,000. Get a $1,000,000 contribution, promptly write a $950,000 check to the U.S. Treasury. It'll make pandering to these sub-90 IQ dimwits much more expensive. |
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Sasukeuzi
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not gonna stop us from buying violent vidja games
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mgosdin
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Mr. Biden, please explain this to your political cohorts.
There may be no legal reason that violent games, or anything else you don't like, can't be taxed. There is a practical reason however, you won't keep your job. Mark Gosdin |
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Polycell
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Eri94
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Hey Biden, you [expletive] idiot, no legal issue? How about the fact the supreme court already said they're protected just like books and movies are? You can't just "tax" violent ones.
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daggerbob
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Does this also apply to the Christian/Catholic Bible as well? Especially with all its sex, killings and violence in the Old Testament. Or are they a bunch of hypocrites?
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Hiro94
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Joe Biden has no room to talk about violent videogames in the first place.This is a guy who's in an administration where drone bombings are done on a daily bases in the middle east and kill hundreds of children a year.
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Haterater
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Going after video games, movies, and "media" so they really want to tax anything violent that they can. I want to really know what they consider "violent". Just R or M or etc rated things or what? What if those media don't have violence physically, but have other content to make those ratings? Seems too broad.
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Altacia
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I loose weight when I really get into a game... I forget to eat. |
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