January 25, 2008
Earlier this week GamePolitics reported on a New Mexico proposal which would impose a 1% sales tax on video games and TV sets.The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) has now issued a statement in opposition to the New Mexico tax:
The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) is opposed to the legislation proposed by the New Mexico Sierra Club. It's unconstitutional to target video games with a special tax that would unduly burden gamers, leaving out other forms of entertainment media like movies, music and books.
This proposed tax would also stifle trade and disproportionately impact generations X and Y, who are increasingly becoming more politically aware and vocal.
Full Disclosure Dept: The ECA is the parent company of GamePolitics.
Comments
yes, it's a sin tax against electronic media but it's not just games it included, at least, televisions in the list.
the reason it's wrong is that it is telling people what they should be doing with their free time and it isn't the Sierra Club (and by extension the NM lawmakers) who gets to decide if you want to spend your time after work indoors or out.
They aren't really telling you how to spend your free time. THe money goes to outdoor education. SO instead of being in class 7-8 hours a day, you would be in the classroom 4 hrs the day and the other four would be in some outdoor setting, or something like that.
But they are saying that you should be punished for non school related activities to pay for school related education. It is completely stupid.
If they really want to fund those things, they just need to get a slice of the education fund. But that would be too easy as it does not require new taxes.
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
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Again, a display of complete ignorance over Ron Paul. He does not have a clue about anything.
I really hope - at some point, they just take ALL of my money and then the Government can decide for me - where I'll live, what I'll drive, what I'll eat, where I'll work, what entertainment I can partake in, and on and on and on...
Good Idea!
Government Knows Best!!
Don't they? Look - historically - at all the WONDERFUL good they've done!!
Seriously, whoever wrote this release needs to get their head out of JPod.
Fangamer
I don't really see where you're coming from with that statement. Are you implying that Generation Y isn't active in this regard? Because Gen Y is generally considered to be people born in 1980 through 1995, and people in their 20s and early 30s are exactly the kind of people the ECA is talking about.
Yeah, those taxesare affectionatly reffered to as a "Sin Tax." What makes this law unconstitutional, where unlike cigarettes, theres more than one form of this entertainment. Theres movies in theatures, music, dvds, blue rays. Where cigarettes, have that and cigars which for simplicity's sake, the same thing.
Alright but can anyone cite a precedent case?
I am almost 17, so I'll be out of school soon. I would sooner work at micky d's, and be able to play WOW all day, then go to college...but if this tax did go in, then I would probibaly go to college instead.
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