Fred Dutton for EuroGamer.net:
A proposed bill to impose a one per cent tax on violent video games in the US state of Oklahoma has failed to become to law.
The bill would have created a one percent tax on violent video games, with the proceeds used to “fight childhood obesity and bullying.” It died in a subcommittee hearing when lawmakers failed to establish any directly causal relationship between such games and childhood issues like obesity and bullying.
Raise the tax on all video games for this intent sure. But it should be all video games not some random criteria that could possibly be worked around.
The legislators agreed that it wouldn’t succeed on that criteria, either. What’s to differentiate video games from watching TV or eating junk food?