nationalreview.comPosted Jul 25, 2015, 1:03 AM UTC
1984 is now.
Yeah, the situation between these entertainment mega-corps and consumers was totally cool before this happened.
Mmmm National Review. Smells like conservative anus speak. None the less they should just tax the rich instead. But you know that won't happen so you get things like this.
desperate times calls for desperate measures
This is what gov'ts do...I'm not sure what is so shocking here. It will be more of the same when this sub elects their hero Bernie.
Because now it is affecting them... When it is just the poor shmuck income tax payers getting up before dawn and long before their body has enough rest, going to bed long after dark, doing stuff they don't like, for people they don't care for, so they can have 20-40% of all that effort taken from them so they can struggle more...This sub doesn't give a rats ass...
But a tax on a video game???? That's outrageous!
In the thread about this in r/technology, the consensus was that this tax would be overturned in court eventually, but it would probably take a while.
To what extent does that consensus line up with the city of Chicago's? According to lot of Reddit users, even basic taxes are seen as tantamount to oppressive socialism.
I, for one, could really care less if people get taxed for all of this mindless entertainment trash. Maybe it'll make a handful of these services' dipshit consumers realize that they can just go to their local libraries and access tons of higher-quality entertainment for free...maybe not the oh-so-important video games, but oh well...
You mean they can read books instead of movies_right? You know some people hate books and hate reading books?
Every library I've been to in the past ten years loans out DVDs and a few are even risky enough to loan out video games.