Wisconsin State Senator Jon Erpenbach caused quite a stir in the gaming scene lately with a new legislation he plans to pass. The new law seeks to put a 1 percent surcharge on every game sale to fund a juvenile justice program.Specifics aren't clear year on how this will work out, but gamers expect that they'll have to carry the additional burden.
This was met with opposition by gamers who are aware about the bill. Gamers are saying that the tax creates an impression that gaming is a bad thing that needs to have additional taxes on it.
"I just think [the video game tax is] pretty unfair to attack gamers and have them pay for something they, more than likely, have nothing to do with," says adult Wisconsin gamer Justin Sallows.
"I think it s a real problem," he adds. "Even if that s not what the intention is, it creates the impression that there s something wrong with the video games because we need to put some extra tax on there to try to dissuade people from playing them."
"The [video game tax] idea being that this is kind of a kids-kids thing, in other words, if we re going to do this for kids maybe this would be a good way to go about it," reacts the legislator. "And if it s not the best way, I m open to any other way."
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