Incline Biden wants to tax violent video games

[cvv]

How is "Biden says there’s no legal reason video games couldn't be taxed" the same as "Biden wants to tax video games"? How is it a declaration? I'm lazy, so maybe there are other quotes out there, but this just seems like some people can into jumping to conclusions and can't into reading comprehension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

 

[Jvegi]

How is "Biden says there’s no legal reason video games couldn't be taxed" the same as "Biden wants to tax video games"? How is it a declaration? I'm lazy, so maybe there are other quotes out there, but this just seems like some people can into jumping to conclusions and can't into reading comprehension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

Not really. I mean, it could be, but what it is, is not enough information, shitty video game journalism, and dumb people on the internet.

 

[evdk]

Not really. I mean, it could be, but what it is, is not enough information, shitty video game journalism, and dumb people on the internet.

Context. There is a large ongoing discussion about violence in the US. Since trying to tackle the gun lobby / NRA would actually be difficult and require some balls to pull off successfully, the current DC establishment has discovered a handy substitute: virtual guns! (To head off any 2nd Amendment nutjobs: I don't believe any approach would work in the US unless the culture itself would change radically). From trying to tie up video games creators in the narrative by inviting them to the discussion table when they do not actually have anything to do with the discussion to various voice from the White House clamoring for tighter control of content produced you have it all. In this late you cannot interpret Joe's musings as anything else as a first salvo in the newest attempt to entertain the American voter with a faux useful activity.

 

[DragoFireheart]

I used to like Biden.

 

[Jvegi]

In this late you cannot interpret Joe's musings as anything else as a first salvo in the newest attempt to entertain the American voter with a faux useful activity.

Yeah, you can. It could mean anything. All you have to work with is a true statement about tax laws, which is being called 'a declaration' by fucking IGN. I refuse to make any judgment on way or another based on such vague bullshit, until more info is in, and you should all be ashamed for not doing the same.
Apparently bad journalism is ok if it serves your own prejudice. You are what's wrong with human race.

I'll shout FU Biden, as soon as I know something has happened.

 

[evdk]

Yes, the Vice President of the USA randomly goes on record musing about the validity of taxing various products. For the hell of it. It's just his hobby.

But by all means, stick your head in the sand.

 

[Papa Môlé]

Gun industry is really shooting themselves in the foot lately blaming violence on video games to deflect blame. Video games promote gun culture and have been proven to increase sales of real world weapons that are featured in games, not to mention the licensing fees the manufacturers can get. If more gun owners had the balls they try so hard to show off in gun ads they'd just come out and call it like it is. Guns are a dangerous technology but no different than any other dangerous technology, in fact cause far less deaths than most such as cars, and while arguably a luxury they are no different than any other luxury as well, like driving a SUV, which also more harmful in the long run.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

 

[Jvegi]

Yes, the Vice President of the USA randomly goes on record musing about the validity of taxing various products. For the hell of it. It's just his hobby.

But by all means, stick your head in the sand.

Legality, not validity. Reading comprehension. School stuff.
By all means, talk out of your ass, trust IGN, don't go to the source, and don't be critical of the information you receive.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/05/biden-gun-control-to-wait-for-immigration-163361.html

Those present for the Monday evening meeting included Franklin Graham, son of the evangelist Billy Graham and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Barrett Duke, the vice president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm.
The meeting also included Bruce Reed, Biden’s chief of staff, and Melissa Rogers, the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, according to people who attended.
Graham, two people in the meeting said, told Biden the government should consider taxing media companies that broadcast violent images and produce violent video games.
“He floated the idea that media and entertainment that portray violence should be subject to a special tax, with the proceeds going to help victims and their families," said Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly.
Biden told Graham that there was “no restriction on the ability to do that, there’s no legal reason why they couldn’t” tax violent images, Clark added.
Graham’s representatives did not respond to requests for comment. Biden’s office also did not respond to requests to comment about the meeting.
Biden told the religious leaders that he would like to see a comprehensive study of the impact that violent video games and movies has on developing brains.
“He said they really need a good scientific study, which they’ve done on things like smoking,” Clark said.

So... One religious dumbfuck proposes that violent media should be taxed, and Biden informs him that legally it's possible ( which is true), but he needs to present a rigorous scientific study that would prove the correlation between violence and violent media.
And that's fucking it. You can spin it any way you want if you don't care about journalistic integrity, and that's what IGN and many other sites did, because that's what they do, because they don't have integrity, which is what all of yo have been bitching about for years. And know you're buying their shit like little children.

 

[evdk]

Spoiler

Would you believe me if I lied claimed that I was trolling?

 

[DraQ]

TBH, given that it would mostly affect dudebro shooters...

 

[DragoFireheart]

TBH, given that it would mostly affect dudebro shooters...

Because indies games sell poorly due to LACK OF VIOLENCE.

Interesting.

 

[zerotol]

Americans waging war all over the world and then the vice-president talks about taxing violent games.

Is there no end to the stupidity of the KWA?

Maybe cut back your military expenses?

 

[DragoFireheart]

Is there no end to the stupidity of the KWA?

Look at me, a Military Veteran.

What the fuck do you think?

Don't ask stupid questions.

Unless you're an Merican and then it's ok because God blessed you with the right to be stupid.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I guess this is a delicate suggestion for the games industry to spend more money on lobbying?

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Vile subhuman monsters.

 

[Creamy Muffin]

They'd get more money if they introduced a tax on shit games.

 

[mck]

They'd get more money if they introduced a tax on all games.

but first we must define what a fuck you

 

[cvv]

I guess this is a delicate suggestion for the games industry to spend more money on lobbying?

They're spending a huge amount of dorra already, without ESA God knows where the "violence in games" debate would end up.

They're up against some serious heavyweights though, especially Christians, conservatives and the rest of the bible belt menagerie.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/video-game-lobby_n_3046533.html

 

[Roguey]

Americans waging war all over the world and then the vice-president talks about taxing violent games.

Is there no end to the stupidity of the KWA?

Maybe cut back your military expenses?

The sequester cut 42 billion of defense spending, 'course they've slowly been repealing those and anything that inconveniences rich people while leaving social programs cuts as is.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

They'd get more money if they introduced a tax on shit games.

"Good idea, let's use the Metacritics to determine which ones are those."

 

[evdk]

They'd get more money if they introduced a tax on shit games.

"Good idea, let's use the Metacritics to determine which ones are those."

"Too bad, Obsidian, 84% on Metacritic, not only will you not get the bonus but you'll have to pay the Spector Tax."

 

[Metro]

Just to add: the Vice President has no power to implement a tax.

 

[Bruticis]

Just to add: the Vice President has no power to implement a tax.

3rd worlders aren't going to let something silly like facts get in the way of a good discussion.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

As if not being able to do something by yourself ever mattered in politiks. First worlders and their naiveté.