Wisconsin senator wants more gaming taxes

These days, technology has made the costs of game development higher than ever, and gamers are beginning to feel the weight. Don’t look now but things just might get a bit more expensive as a Wisconsin State Senator introduces a proposal to add more taxes to gaming. It’s for a good cause, but are you with the legislator on this one? Read the full story in the detailed version.

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 itÂ’s a real problem,” he adds. “Even if thatÂ’s not what the intention is, it creates the impression that thereÂ’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 idea being that this is kind of a kids-kids thing, in other words, if weÂ’re going to do this for kids maybe this would be a good way to go about it,” reacts the legislator. “And if itÂ’s not the best way, IÂ’m open to any other way.”

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