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Hillary Eying Video Game Tax?
According to an un-sourced story in Kotaku, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) is mulling a tax on video games.
If that's true, Sen. Clinton is in noteworthy - if not especially good - company. Advocating a game tax would align her with the likes of failed Texas gubernatorial candidate Star Locke as the only politicians in recent memory to advocate a special tariff on our favorite pastime.
As the Kotaku story tells it, the tax would go to some type of child advocacy program. Although we'd rather see some kind of attribution, Kotaku editor Brian Crecente got it right last year regarding ESA president Doug Lowenstein's secret Hillary fund-raising breakfast, so methinks his Hillary contacts have history on their side.
Meanwhile, Philadelphia Daily News columnist/blogger Will Bunch takes Hillary to task in a piece entitled Never Mind the Potholes, Hillary Continues Down the Lieberman Road.
The Lieberman headline refers to the Connecticut senator who is widely perceived by Democrats to have gotten too cozy with President Bush, especially on the the war in Iraq. The three-term incumbent faces a difficult August 8th primary in which he currently trails his opponent by five points.
Bunch's story deals with Hillary's seeming obsession with trivial issues like video games and advertising, while failing to step up on the big ones, like, say, Iraq. Bunch notes that A-list liberal blog The Daily Kos ran the results of a straw poll yesterday which showed Hillary finishing seventh, trailing, among others, Sen. Russ Feingold, Gen. Wesley Clark, "No Freakin' Clue" and "Other."
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....I hate this woman.
Its not a conservative/liberal thing. I'm decidedly middle of the road. This woman SCARES me. She like some nightmare of idiotic ideas made flesh. Her AND Lieberman. You know how in G. I. Joe how Serpentor was made from the DNA of all the most brutal and ruthless leaders in history? I think they did the same with these two except they used stupid corrupt politicians.
Tax on my video games? Bite me. Flat out patently ridiculous bullshit. You're going to sin tax kids? Please. Let put a tax on skateboards, BMX bikes, and rollerblades while we're at it. How about board games? Monopoly teaches greed! Candy Land encourages poor nutrition! Mouse trap advocates animal cruelty!!!!
GAH! The possibilities make my head explode.