gaming Joe Biden wants to tax violent video games.

[Neon Fire 473]

I hate when people say video games cause violence when they don't even have proof for it.  I play FPS games ALL the time and I don't go around committing ANY crimes.  This is just a stupid government scam to get money.

[Winona the Dog 1,984]

While I don't support the tax to violent video games; I do think video games are in fact affecting the young generation on a certain level. For an example kids play video games these days more often than ever compared to a decade ago. This means kids don't get more exercise, socialization time, etc. .Causing them to be more prone to obesity ( but like I said some more or less than others)

 

 

Video games shouldn't be taxed but they need to be downplayed.

[Power of Dashie 18]

I feel happy and sad about this at the same time. People are already getting overcharged on games, (especially EA games), and now that this is being proposed, i feel my wallet getting more empty.

 

-Rant will be posted later, in a bad spot atm-

[Nobody Special 210]

I really don't get why they think that. Hmmmm I wonder what violent video game John Wilkes Boothe played before killing Lincoln, anypony? Just me?

Also I really don't care what game you are playing, but chances are it has some kind of violence. So really if he wants to tax violent video games he would have to tax every videogame.

[Fluttershyfan94 5,744]

@, I get what you're saying.. But it really isn't the government that should be making those decisions.. So what if kids played less video games, they would just watch cartoons or movies instead. I would probably be reading books or something.. I actually did when I was younger. Because I love history and cars I took it upon myself to learn everything about it myself. Not like school teaches you anything interesting. So what I'm saying is, we don't need taxes, we don't have to do anything about video games. What has to be done in this case, (about kids obesity) is simply encourage kids to participate more in activities. School does not help when it comes to that, with all that homework and stress. What are they thinking, of course kids just rather want to spend some relaxing time behind the computer, that is one of the main reason I was rather behind the computer then outside, it's stress and the best way to get rid of stress is video games, well now it's ponies. So my way to make sure kids do more activities, is very simple make school shorter and try minimizing the homework.

 

Violence where does violence start, school. School is where it's the worst, with all the bullying and stuff. So my advice for the government that seems to not be able to make the right choices.. Instead of wasting your time and energy putting taxes on everything you can.. Try thinking, what about putting more energy into stopping bullying, maybe those kids would get less stressed. Maybe those kids would not be affraid of actually going outside, maybe those kids would not be affraid to do sports, because they know they won't get bullied. Maybe if there wasn't so much violence in schools, then maybe you wouldn't be seeing some crazy person that has been damaged by years of bullying and discrimination. Now of course there are just crazy people that will do anything that pops up in their mind. But why not blame bullying, isn't that more likely. If schools didn't have so much violence this wouldn't be like this.

 

So why not score at two places at once, let's make school shorter, less homework and try to fix bullying in schools before people get damaged by it.. Then maybe there wouldn't be so many suicides. What about actually doing something important instead of putting taxes on violent video games. Like really, let's make a difference for once. By doing this you will end up probably fixing the obesity problem, although of course people also need to change diet. Then the second thing we would be scoring at is we wouldn't be putting taxes on violent video games.

 

So in short, let's stop bullying and stop putting taxes on everything.

 

Anyway, taxation is never the answer. I had already made a huge rant on it. I guess I just made another shorter one.

[DusK 1,264]

A little bit of insight for people jumping to conclusions: It was Franklin Graham who suggested the idea of taxing video games in a recent meeting, and Biden said that he would need sound scientific research confirming a link between video game violence and gun violence before he'd consider something like that.

 

Taking into account that no such research exists or likely will ever exist, you guys are freaking out over a whole lot of nothing.

 

He's wrong about there being "no restriction on the ability to [tax violent images]"; a little something called the First Amendment, as well as a Supreme Court ruling on the matter, stops such a thing from happening. But he made it pretty clear that he wouldn't consider such a thing anyway unless there was sound science behind it.

Edited May 16, 2013 by DusK

[deadprofile 1,123]

...hmm....I am reminded of a certain politician who was very much against violent video games...

 

All i can really do is just giggle about it, because no matter what you do, people will buy it and it won't stop anyone who "would" be violent to not be violent because video games do not make someone a killer or a sociopath....just as all the cigarette taxes don't stop people from smoking...

 

At the end of the day it's the kids at most risk for "following" video game logic, and if that is what this is all about, then they should do something about the parents who allow their kids to play such things, not jack prices....If this is all about crazy people going around and shooting others, than their logic is moot! What about people BEFORE video games who did horrible things, what caused it for them?  Was it >gasp< a radio show? Roy Rogers? living in a religious-centric town? Eating homegrown food!? the color pink?, tight shoes? (seriously, these things have been linked to violent acts back in the day for various reasons, most of them superfluously funny and unrealistic)....

 

 

Jack Thompson....need I say more?

 

Edited May 16, 2013 by Treble Bolt

[Fluttershyfan94 5,744]

@@DusK, In my defence I did not know anything about this you mentioned. Although I have an opinion on the taxation, I had not known that this was like you say.. Not confirmed or would only be done if it would be proven. So I'm sorry about the rants, although it wasn't really a rant on Joe Biden, it was more on just why we should not put tax on violent video games and also just that we should rather be focusing our energy on something else more important. Anyway, this was still a good discussion, although I don't have much more to say about it.

[Michael DeSanta 258]

To Be honest this argument over video games is an old one because this stems into the violent media argument from the violence of the old west being blamed on the dime nickel stories and war story glories about the lone desperado. To it being jazz and ragtag music of the 1920s and the blues of the 40s the rock n roll of the 50s and 60s the war movies of the 60s. The westerns of the 60s James bond by the 70s they blamed metal music and disco metal again in the 80s the 90s it was rap video games and goth culture. To be honest when you think about this it is nowhere near a new argument. Weather joe biden was in support of this or not I am seriously thinking that the video game industry may have an attempt to be censored in the near future.