We shouldn’t tax violence in the media

Taxing violent images and violent video games isn’t going to be the answer to all of the violence in society nor will it even alleviate the problem.

According to Politico, Vice President Joe Biden and Franklin Graham flirted with the idea of such taxation on companies who portrays violence and added that all the revenue that taxes will generate will go to gun violence victims.

Even though this taxation hasn’t been proposed to the House of Representatives or gone thru the process of being written down, this is something that America doesn’t need right now.

Creating a tax for violence in the media will hurt the entertainment industry.

Times are tough right now, especially for the U.S. economy. According to USAtoday, the projected budget deficit for U.S will be $642 billion.

Although that number has been down from recent years, it is far away from where we want to be.

The only thing that this idea will most likely do is outsource jobs that were originally jobs for some Americans. This media violence tax will only make people in the U.S. scared to spend in a time where the government needs consumer confidence at its highest.

This can start a domino effect that will most likely lead to harsh budget cuts in education, health care, and law enforcement. Not only that but this supposed tax would also add to the already problematic unemployment rate which is at 7.5%.

 

Our government is in that time were we need to cut taxes for the middle class and below and start raising taxes for the more wealthy of citizens.

It is understandable that taxes will help fund the government, but do we have to punish the american public with this unreasonable tax?

Governments should research more proactively and look for more fiscially responsible ways of solving this issue without hurting the everday perosn’s already thin wallet.

Why can’t government promote campaigns for anti-gun violence instead of going to an unrealistic approach. Maybe the government should try to give incentives to those companies who decide to keep violence out of it projects.

There is no question that there is a lot of violence in the media and it’s an issue that we as Americans should come to together to solve with sound judgement and good reasoning.