Joe Biden Sees No Legal Problem with Taxing Violent Video Games

[playingwithPuddin]

At a gun legislation strategy meeting held at the White House recently, United States Vice President Joe Biden suggested there would be "no legal reason" why taxing violent media, including video games, would be an issue. This taxing of any kind of "violent images" could, of course, extend to film and television, as well.

The Vice President's declaration came in response to a suggestion made by Reverend Franklin Graham, who attended the meeting alongside 19 other religious leaders. According to Politico.com, attendees at the meeting said that Biden responded favourably to the Reverend's idea, going so far as to say there would be “no restriction on the ability to do that, there’s no legal reason why they couldn't."

It was suggested by Graham that proceeds of the tax would go towards victims of gun violence and their families, according to the website's sources.


Joe Biden Sees No Legal Problem with Taxing Violent Video Games - IGN

 

[Costanza]

I could care less tax those motherfukkers... there caking like whoa anyways.

 

[Mowgli]

Worst administration in history.

 

[Poppa_Dock]

why you just change the gun laws retards

 

[playingwithPuddin]

why you just change the gun laws retards

cause its MURRRIIICAAAA we need our god and guns bro

 

[Liquid]

Bullshyt

 

[Big Blue]

Yeah Joe? it's a blatant violation of the first amendment. Even then the MPAA has way too much power to let it fly.

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[Orbital-Fetus]

start taxing Monopoly players.
start taxing Sim City players.
start taxing Facebook Farmville.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Gun makers are like Activision, EA, Take 2....

 

[Melt_Man]

Its odd how whenever they talk about violence they want to bring up movies and video games and not the victims of America's endless war.

 

[Mic-Nificent]

fukking old people I swear....

The entire "Videogames cause our children to be violent" is perpetuated by non gaming old people.

We should be long past this bullshyt at this point, there grown ass people with kids who have grown up playing violent videogames who KNOW that argument is bullshyt.

 

[up in here]

the only problem with things like this is that they takes the business so the business in turn just puts their prices up, so in the end the only ones losing out are consumers. meanwhile these tax measures have very little actual effect on the business.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

If you heavily tax something you don't agree with you are actually supporting it because you're making money off of it. alcohol, tobacco. the government eats well off of all of it.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

They're not actually going to try to introduce legislation, it's just an old dude speaking his mind. Nothing to see here.

 

[MidwestD]

I'm drunk and I thought the thread title said Joe Budden.