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Texans, want to pay 100% tax on "violent" games?, You no longer need concern yourselves.

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Tei Sama

Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:05 PM

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Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6143114.html

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Though incumbent Governor Rick Perry is almost assured to win the Republican nomination for this year's gubernatorial election in Texas, he does face three long-shot challengers. One of them, Corpus Christi rancher Star Locke, has proposed eliminating property taxes in the Lone Star State with revenue from taxing three things he finds undesirable. Specifically, Locke is proposing a $10,000 per-abortion tax on medical clinics that perform abortions and a 50 percent tax on all soda that "contains added glucose, fructose, sucrose to the beverage for sale to humans."

[UPDATE] However, gamers will be especially alarmed by the third part of Locke's property-tax-relief proposal--a 100 percent tax on "violent video games." According to the candidate's official Web site, the candidate would impose "The Family Security & Protection Act" when elected. Section 4 of the act calls to "levy a 100 percent of price sales cost tax for the sale on ... any video game containing any form of human violence."

"I take the position that the Founding Fathers took: that the power to tax is the power to destroy," Locke told the Amarillo Globe News. "So our concept is that we need to tax things we don't want and you want to not tax things that you want to encourage."

However, in the unlikely event he is sent to the governor's mansion, Locke would create a 10-member board that would label games as violent. According to the Globe, the tax itself would be levied against the publishers of said games--and quickly. "Once it's reviewed, the tax would be levied swiftly," he said.

[UPDATE] Locke's other platform promises call for the repeal of all alcoholic beverage laws and a 50 percent "grease tax" on "all food prepared by deep-frying or cooking in any form of oil or grease for human consumption."

I'm sorry, Texicans. You guys have too much self-respect to let even someone this right-winged into a seat of power...I hope.

EDIT: I've updated the topic's subtitle to account for more recent happenings.

This post has been edited by Tei Sama on Mar 10 2006, 10:33 PM

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Greliz	Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:07 PM
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Duckboy	Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:13 PM
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SonicProject	Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:16 PM
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Comrade Kesha	Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:24 PM
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Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:25 PM

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QUOTE (Greliz @ Jan 29 2006, 02:07 AM)

Hitler should have been killing stupid people. With any luck, he'd have nailed some of this guy's ancestors so he wouldn't exist.

Dude, if hitler massacred stupid people, he would be woshipped as a hero in schools, rather than as a pretty big asshole.

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Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:26 PM

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Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:47 PM

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QUOTE (Comrade Kesha @ Jan 28 2006, 07:24 PM)

See, Texas is far away from Canada. Coincidence?

All the states get the bad stuff, and we receive the rest of the good stuff.

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Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:48 PM

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QUOTE (Yoshiman @ Jan 29 2006, 02:47 AM)

All the states get the bad stuff, and we receive the rest of the good stuff.

Living in a bad environment breeds toughness. Though it still does really suck.

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Comrade Kesha	Posted: Jan 28 2006, 09:50 PM
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Luigifan12	Posted: Jan 28 2006, 10:47 PM
lol, Base Gallery Group: Members Posts: 2888 Member No.: 590 Joined: 6-September 04 Status: (0d)	....... all games have some sort of violence. In Mario games, he jumps on enemies to kill them. In sports titles, especially football. So basically, all platformers, sports, and FPS are 100% taxed? -------------------- .:Email:. People who drew/sprited me: -NO Body -Super Shroom -Ashura Sonic -Cotangent Chaos

Judge Fudge	Posted: Jan 28 2006, 10:53 PM
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QUOTE (dustindemon @ Jan 28 2006, 10:53 PM)

Good thing I live in Idaho. There'd never be anything like this in such a forgotten state.

what the hell is an "Idaho"

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Posted: Jan 28 2006, 10:58 PM

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QUOTE (Duckboy @ Jan 28 2006, 10:44 PM)

Obviously, all the canadians who went on vacation in america, couldn't find their way back up north, so they just settled wherever they were at the time.

Today, that place is known as texas.

I'm guessing only stupid Canadians go on vacation to America.

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Posted: Jan 29 2006, 09:10 AM

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Yeah, but you know, this is Texas we're talking 'bout after all.

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MegaMan	Posted: Jan 29 2006, 09:27 AM
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