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The legal beagles over at GamePolitics.com have been keeping tabs on the Pennsylvania state legislature. Lawmakers in the PA house have recently been debating the ins and outs of targeting violent video games through elevated taxation. The hearing in question saw ” a pair [of] State Reps question employees of the Pennsylvania Joint State Commission as to possible alternatives by which violent video games might be targeted.” Suggestions varied, but two examples picked up on by GamePolitics included a “5% tax be levied on sales of violent games with proceeds used to fund a parental education program,” with a second eliminating Pennsylvania state tax incentives “from companies which create violent games.” There seems to be a bit of a snag in this line of logic, however. It turns out that the statewide task force, assembled to investigate the effects of violent games, found that “violent games may have some positive effects.” As such, it may be difficult for such legislation to just get rubber stamped. Below you can get a more in-depth view of the session, but the hand-held camera used to record it was not atop a tripod. It makes it a bit difficult to watch but informative, nonetheless. |