I should note, this guy may technically be a Republican, but he's definitly no conservative. I'm a conservative myself, and have many conservative friends, and whenever sombody preposes a new tax we all wince in synch.

I should also note, that the statment that "the power to tax is meant to be the power to destroy," is the sort of statment that drives folks like me absolutely nuts.

So, yeah, he's just some hack whom thinks he can gain political power by bringing up a hot button issue. Though I think he'll probably be laughed out at the state instead.

Star Locke reads the GamesAreFun forums =)

http://www.gamesarefun.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4680

" There is also a danger of where politicians go when these laws fail, as they inevitably will. We have already seen games put in the same category as cigarettes and liquor with the California bill. What if the next move is to price them out of adolescents' range with vice taxes like those on cigarettes and alcohol? When they charge you $50 for a game and $10 in tax, gamers will start caring, and it will be too late."

Heh, this wouldnt stand a snowbals chance in hell for holding up against a real lawsuit... Dont worry about it, unless you live in texas, then just make sure you contact the ESB and etc...

Thankfully, I doubt this will ever materialize. I hope I'm right.

and I'm sure that the tax profets go to make his fat ass fatter... polititions are dickholes

For someone who claims to work in the interests of the "founding fathers" he does a very good job and completely misinterpreting them. Legislating "taste" or "opinion" is NOT what the FF had in mind. He is right, the FF did believe taxes have the power to destroy... it destroyed the relationtionship between the colonies and England which led to a bloody revolution.

But, then again, this is Texas and now it is time for my favorite qoute about Texas:
"The only two things come out of Texas are steers and queers... and I don't see any horns on you boy!"

lizard_axe: Well then it's time to bite the bullet and move to Canada :P

Not very scary at all. Many things are taxed. There are ways around it, if it bothers one that much.

Of course, there's always the option to make your goverment work for you, and go beyond simple complaint.

Being a Texas resident, this news first pissed me off. However, also being a college student dependent on financial aid, I am now interested.

You'd think Nintendo fans are safe, but don't forget: Jack Thompson attacked The Sims for vulgar sexual content. Yeah. So, you never know, Twilight Princess may be deemed overly violent by the same people resposible for proposing this tax.

Well you Nintendo fans dont have much to worry about. Lucky for me I don't live in Texas and pretty soon I won't be living in the States.

Texas? Only two things come from Texas!

What a POS bastard. Who the hell is this guy to tell us "we need to tax things WE don't want"?
Who the hell is "We"?
I hope he does fail miserably and goes on a violent NRA style rampage on his idiotic panel.

Like terpfen said Star Locke will lose the primary anyway so it doesn't matter. I sure do hate Rick Perry though. Since we're talking about who I hate. I also hate the superintendent of my town's school distric. Stupid Rick Schneider.

What a bunch of scumbags. I can't wait to see all Teen (13 and up) games fall into the violent category.

I say we implement mushroom cloud diplomacy and ban the sales of *ANYTHING* to people under the age of 18.

Outsourcing restrictions probably won't happen. The business owners don't want it, so the politicians that get campaign contributions, free expensive dinners dinners, and whatever else from them won't want it.

When an American company outsources to another country, they get something in return from the country they're sourcing to. Namely that country starts buying that business' products, which makes for increased sales for that business while saving labor costs for the business. For example 20 years ago, India didn't have Frito Lay, Mcdonalds, Microsoft, etc in it. They only had Indian-brand food and merchandise. Now after outsourcing, they've relaxed and there are American-brand companies everywhere. That also makes the country in question more dependant on the US, because their standard of living goes up from America's businesses/products, and they don't want to go back to the way it was before. Especially newer generation Indians that grew up with American products and services. So, the US now has a great deal more control over India.

Last I checked, as a Conservative Reform Federalist, I am against excessive taxation and penalty taxes. Taxes should be used to moderation to streamline government and improve the community as a whole. In this way, I am for some sorts of taxes. I think sales tax is good in a county to county basis and should be set by county, not the state government.

Personally, if he REALLY wanted to do some "good" with taxes.. he should do what I've been writing my governor to do: Raise taxes on outsourcing labor. In other words.. make it MORE EXPENSIVE for a company to hire out of country laborers or to out-source things like tech support, and manufacturing. Make it MORE EXPENSIVE to hire outside of the USA. That way, when I call -say- Dell, I can speak to someone IN the USA who speaks AMERICAN ENGLISH as a first language; because it was too expensive for them to outsource that job to -say- India. If taxes could be used to make it impossible for people NOT to hire workers inside of the USA.. GOOD. I think that coupling that higher tax with a lowered minimum wage would be just dandy enough to help grow US businesses.

This guys last name makes me think of this line for some reason: "I'm not a thief, I'm a TREASURE HUNTER."

Leave it to a politician to understand how to leverage taxation.

The good news is that Locke seems to be digging for publicity--in all likelihood, he's going to lose the primary, so his ideas are completely irrelevant.