Joe Biden Sees No Legal Problem with Taxing Violent Video Games

Joined
Apr 2, 2013
Messages
1,017
Reputation
-50
Daps
443
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

lord of the idiots
Supporter
Joined
Jun 11, 2012
Messages
5,477
Reputation
560
Daps
8,138
Reppin
Jerrys place
I could care less tax those motherfukkers... there caking like whoa anyways.
 

Big Blue

Superstar
Joined
Sep 26, 2012
Messages
19,558
Reputation
949
Daps
50,777
Reppin
Brooklyn
Yeah Joe? it's a blatant violation of the first amendment. Even then the MPAA has way too much power to let it fly. :stopitslime:

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
 

Orbital-Fetus

cross that bridge
Supporter
Joined
May 5, 2012
Messages
41,351
Reputation
18,699
Daps
152,007
Reppin
Humanity
start taxing Monopoly players.
start taxing Sim City players.
start taxing Facebook Farmville.
 

Melt_Man

The Power to MELT!
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
948
Reputation
20
Daps
864
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

I didn't eat nobody
Joined
May 17, 2012
Messages
10,380
Reputation
650
Daps
18,990
Reppin
NULL
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

Superstar
Joined
May 9, 2012
Messages
7,685
Reputation
2,376
Daps
20,128
Reppin
NULL
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.
 

BlvdBrawler

Superstar
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
12,715
Reputation
481
Daps
19,562
Reppin
NULL
They're not actually going to try to introduce legislation, it's just an old dude speaking his mind. Nothing to see here.
 
Top