CT Proposes 10% Excise Tax For All Games Rated "M"

Man, my state is really pissing me off lately.

After the Newtown school shooting, politicians everywhere have pointed their rigid, ignorant fingers at video games. Some want the ESRB ratings to become legally binding, others have made outlandish statements like "games are a bigger problem than guns," and still others want to tax violent games.

Recently, Connecticut senator Chris Murphy proposed that if the gunman hadn't played a video game that empowered him, the tragedy might never have happened. ...brilliant guy, right there. But wait, Connecticut isn't done embarrassing itself; now it's the turn of Debralee Hovey (R-112th District), who has proposed a 10% excise tax on all games sold in the state that are rated M for Mature. This would make a game go from $60 to $70, by the way. Funds from this endeavor would be handed to the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, so educational materials can be created for families.

That education, by the way, would highlight the "warning signs" of video game addiction and antisocial behavior.

I have no further comment.

Tags: violent games, violent video games, violent game tax

2/6/2013 9:22:59 PM Ben Dutka

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matt99
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 @ 10:24:40 PM
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There are many things in society that should be studied as possible factors in this horrific tragedy, but video games have already been studied and they are not the problem.

No wonder the US congress has such a low approval rating when they waste time on this nonsense.

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Knightzane
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 @ 10:40:37 PM
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Then give 10% extra in everyone's income tax. Don't forget to throw in some additional jobs while your at it.

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WorldEndsWithMe
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 @ 10:50:12 PM
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At least stupidity is a bipartisan issue.

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matt99
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 12:36:41 AM

haha, this made me chuckle.

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Underdog15
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 8:46:02 PM

Gave me a laugh too

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Highlander
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 @ 11:04:07 PM
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Actually, I'm kind of surprised that a luxury tax on M rated games hasn't been suggested before. M rated games are clearly intended for an adult audience, and in a sense it makes sense to tax them as a luxury since that is one definition of the video gaming hobby.

Personally, I think it's a brain-dead stupid idea that only appeals to politicians trying to grandstand their way into a better career at the cost of the lives lost in tragic shootings and scapegoating the very convenient, and difficult to defend video game industry. Politicians turn my stomach sometimes...

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Killa Tequilla
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 12:08:16 AM

Exactly, why are rated R, TV-MA, and adult movies not taxed 10% more?

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Snaaaake
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 2:37:28 AM

They can do whatever they want with video games, even if, I repeat, EVEN IF, any crap they proposed somehow get the green light, violence will still be around.

And by the way Highlander, can I assume that your avatar is your WKC avatar?

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Highlander
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 5:16:25 AM

Yep, that's the one. KOSMOS

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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 9:09:40 AM

I should post my girl up, she's wicked cute and tiny, thanks be to the Japanese for still allowing big tits... stupid proportionate western character development systems...

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Highlander
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 2:42:38 PM

I'll have to find one of KOS that more clearly shows her Neko ears...

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BikerSaint
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 @ 11:30:20 PM
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Here we go again....our Government Dung Beetles once again feasting on hot steaming piles of nanny-state self-agenda's, just to make themselves look better in their rear-view mirrors.

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tes37
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 @ 11:59:55 PM
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10% sounds awfully high. That could translate into a lot of money with not enough crazy people to spend it on.

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JCARROLL
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 12:33:16 AM
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How about lowering the tax on games that are rated lower than M?
No? Didn't think so

Last edited by JCARROLL on 2/7/2013 12:33:45 AM

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Snaaaake
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 2:28:45 AM
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I don't wanna live on this planet anymore...............no wait, YOU get the hell off this planet!!!!

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PSN French
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 6:19:02 AM
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10% would actually raise it from $60 to $66, not $70. I don't think the tax is high enough... I think it should be 100% tax on violent games, and the revenues be sent to gun shops to subsidize the cost of weapons and ammo to make it more affordable for people to protect themselves from wack-jobs. Go ahead, vote me down... It's REALLY gonna hurt my feelings.

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BikerSaint
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 2:19:16 PM

I'm with you!

Also, shove a 1000% tax right up the a$$es of any & all of those posers keep trying trying to void or change any part of our Constitution or any of it's Amendments, in order to try defeating us with their New World Order socialism Bull$hit!

Or also to try to null & void our Bill Of Rights, & any of our Freedoms that our Forefathers granted us with their infinite wisdom.

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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 5:04:32 PM

Perhaps the best solution is not to hand a gun to 300 million people in order to protect against 300 "wack-jobs."

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PSN French
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 6:21:04 PM

So how many people deserve to protect themselves from whack-jobs Ben? Just the Elite? Just the thugs we call cops? Or just the people YOU pick to protect themselves? Do you somehow think giving guns to people is going to CREATE more whack-jobs? History proves to us that the best solution is to hand guns out to every American, and let them carry it on themselves without government intervention.

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tes37
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 8:15:55 PM

I don't think you have to worry about us losing our guns PSN French, but you may have to count on us having to use them. The predictions and warnings that detail a future one world government only come from one book and America appears to be missing from it. Nobody seems to be able to figure out why a country as powerful as the US is absent from prophecy. It's possible that we get destroyed.

If the elite is able to remove the weapons from Swiss and American citizens, a one world government would be formed immediately afterward. We can't stop the one world government from forming with the weapons available to us, but at least we can fight back and refuse to live under it.

People fail to realize that the second amendment has nothing to do with hunting or sport. It is 100% about protecting ourselves from tyranny that comes from a corrupted government.

The people who are willing to fight seem to be aware of what's taking place.

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Underdog15
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 8:43:21 PM

Hehe always a good chuckle from our good polio loving friend. :p

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Underdog15
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 8:48:16 PM

Also, face palm in general... Haha. Wow. Don't even know where to start on some if these comments. :p

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tes37
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 8:56:07 PM

You may want to be careful with the facepalms Underdog. You'll end up with a concussion if you read too many of my comments.

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Underdog15
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 10:57:52 PM

Probably

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PSN French
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 5:03:05 AM

@tes73, I agree 100%, I may not articulate the best, but I will in no way allow idiocy to dictate the security of my family. I will be dead before my guns are taken from me, yet I will gladly save my own life over a stupid video game. I have been a gamer my whole life, yet I will not forget which freedoms are more important. Thumbs up for you!! I apologize to the idiots who don't understand tes73.

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PSN French
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 5:12:48 AM

@TES73, Also, prophecy talks about "powerful governments", and many attribute those powers to babylon, when likely America is the government that has given freedom to countless and is now arrogant as the babylonians. I think prophesies of "novus ordo seclorum" (New World Order), are simply using our system to rape the minds of "good" people. Search the words of the Rothschilds RIGHT before the war of 1812, and tell me our history books are correct. All freedoms will be lost when citizens disregard our 2nd amendment rights, the Rothschilds have already told us this... yet people DONT read REAL history. I'm done with idiocy, because I will likely die for their freedom while they cheer my death. It wont sway me, I will still fight for the idiots. They deserve freedom too!

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Underdog15
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 9:57:02 AM

Lol

Tes, your first clue is who is agreeing with you. Next will be blank line. I respect you at least for many of your insights on other topics. Psn French here believes polio vaccinations have worsened polio despite the fact the vaccinations have made it nearly extinct. You should always be concerned when habitual conspiracy theorists agree with you. Especially people who think everything is a conspiracy.
I'm just trying to help, now. If my factual foundations on this topic label me an idiot in some circles, then I wear that label proudly, French. At least idiots have some resemblance of a brain at all. In that sense, I'm still ahead. :)

Last edited by Underdog15 on 2/8/2013 10:03:03 AM

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Dustinwp
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 9:52:11 AM
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When ever politics gets involved with things like this, nothing ever gets solved. Being able to spot mental illness and him having access to firearms is the main issue here.
Video games do not cause one to have bipolar disorder!
I also do not care for large ammo clips. I hunt and enjoy guns myself but find these thirty to fifty round clips sports shops sell completely unnecessary and a problem. There not needed for hunting and fire to many rounds for your gun to handle without getting to hot and jamming. Do we really need them?

This guy was an adult and I'm tired of hearing politicians talk like he was a child that video games corrupted. His mom was an irresponsible gun owner because he obviously had some form of mental illness and his mother should not have had guns in the house. Mental illness and guns is all that is needed for a formula for disaster.

I'm sorry, but playing freaking Dynasty Warriors is not going to make someone go on a murdering spree! It might make some commit suicide from boredom, but that's about it. By the way, I personally love Dynasty Warriors!

Last edited by Dustinwp on 2/7/2013 9:53:14 AM

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PSN French
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 5:18:03 AM

Tell that to the South Koreans who would have lost their lives, homes and businesses if it wasnt for their 30 round clips!! The ease of killing from a weapon is involved with the fact that you may have to kill a tyrant. The only problem is that George Washington stands as the ONLY revolutionary to NOT become a tyrant himself. You live in the matrix and cant even see it... all the tyrants that want your weapons carry weapons themselves AND have body guards!!

Last edited by PSN French on 2/8/2013 5:18:42 AM

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Dustinwp
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 9:33:53 AM

This is not South Korea! Take off the tin hats. I think this comments section shows mental illness is a bigger problem then I thought. You are the people that should not be carrying guns.

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Dustinwp
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 9:54:12 AM

Yeah, Benjamin Franklin the man who had a hand in giving you the right to carry firearms was such a tyrant.*rolls eyes*

Last edited by Dustinwp on 2/8/2013 9:54:35 AM

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Underdog15
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 10:05:42 AM

My thoughts exactly, Dustin. Mental illness indeed.

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Underdog15
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 10:05:44 AM

My thoughts exactly, Dustin. Mental illness indeed.

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PSN French
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 5:21:39 AM
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If you have not discovered this yet, I wish to share with the world, and my government... I will die a revolutionary, and I am the only person I have met that will not desire power over another. I wish to give each individual the power to live their own lives. This is the way the real world works... and may the bankers fail in their take-over.

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Underdog15
Friday, February 08, 2013 @ 10:04:30 AM

Le sigh.

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