No, this isn't the same guy as Star Locke, who wanted a 50% tax on video games (and abortions and soft drinks, among other things). This time it's Senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa of Texas District 20, who will be proposing a 5% tax on all video game sales (not just violent games) at the state's Senate Finance Committee meeting this weekend. His rationale?

"You have all these kids buying video games, and sometimes they are good, some are bad and that's not my call," he said to the paper. "But I think that we can generate [money] to put toward the schools they go to."

Of course, he does little to explain why video games specifically should be taxed; Why not pears or Precious Moments figurines? Oh, kids play video games, well... Then why not tax action figures and Pokemon cards and backpacks and Pixy Sticks?

I could go through all the reasons this is the most braindead law to be proposed yet -- starting with the fact that the average gamer, statistically, has been out of any school this would be helping for a few years -- but you know all that already. The real problem is not how ludicrous an idea this is, but that many politicians wouldn't see it as such.

The real lesson to be learned here is to stay the hell out of Texas. But then, I've never understood the desire to be there to begin with. Dust and heat and cowboys, no thank you.

Source: 1up