Democrat Will Fourkiller has introduced HB2696 (full text, RTF download link), proposing to add a one percent excise tax on all "violent video games." The text defines that term as "a video or computer game that has received a rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board of Teen, Mature or Adult[s] Only."
I think this is a bad idea, because Taxes like this can easily be used to make products unprofitable, by simply raising the tax until the product becomes to expensive for many people to buy.
So it can be used as an indirect censorship. Seems a lot more backhanded to me than SOPA.
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