what about re-runs?
Tax “action hero” George Clooney till he sqeals like a girl or Matt Damon not that there is much difference.
and games.
Add one or two, maybe three zeroes to each category.
What about guns displayed in video games? $1 per discharge will rack up some serious bills....
Of course, more television murders would be by knives, clubs, and poisons. Even Hollywood is smart enough to evade a tax.
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Decades ago, cowboy movies didn't show blood and guts all over the place. They didn't even show bullet holes. Back then, kids could bring their guns to school for show and tell.
Same thing with sex. There was outrage when Lucy and Ricky were shown in the bedroom together - even though they had separate beds. They didn't have 11 years olds wanting abortions, teen mothers as the norm, adultery leading to divorces on a record scale, nor the rapes and child molestations we see today.
Homosexuality was a mental condition, and the homos were kept in mental institutions. They didn't have the boy rapes, homo mass murders, the child eating, or the deadly disease we have today, either.
All these things were in the theaters before they started to show up in real life. The nation was and is being flooded with this crap 24/7 - and it gets worse by the day.
Has anyone noticed there have been reports of people attacking and eating others like Zombies? Three is the U.S. so far (that I've heard of). Some blame "Bath Salts", yet the "zombies" had no "Bath Salts" in their systems. Where did this come from? Where have we seen 24/7 Zomies lately?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech..."
On that alone it would never float.
Doesn't taxation of what has heretofore been considered free speech constitute an abridgement?
A proposal to the Feds:
In order to severely decrease gun violence world-wide, end all the non-declared wars and occupations our troops engage in.
When they come home, sell all their automatic weapons and armaments - up to and including tanks - to US civilians (with no felony records, etc) in order to generate much-needed revenue to pay down the debt, and with the proviso that the citizens must maintain the weapons and sell them back to the military if we ever actually declare a war again.
An image of a gun on screen earns the film an R rating. Actual death/bloody gunshot wounds earn an X.
I figure as long as we're shredding the 2nd amendment, why not make it a twofer and attack the 1st?
Well, I went and read it. A foolish proposition that fixes an imaginary problem.
Blaming todays problems on violence in movies or video games (video games ARE a problem due to a different but similar reason as what is often claimed) makes us all look like the provincial idiots that this arguement is intended to.
Good job promoting it here, youve earned your paycheck.