Chicago PlayStation Users Furious They Must Now Pay A 9% "Amusement Tax"

[agitator]

No.

Who is tariffing Chicago's exports?

Why do u always respond to the trolls here? It just encourages them.

 

[agitator]

Not sure why you're bringing that up in every thread recently. It's like you're trying to make a point but kind of failing miserably.

Circuit breaker for the fridge got tripped during the night? That's just like tariffs.

Give it a rest man.

Best to just ignore the mentally handicapped.

 

[acptulsa]

Why do u always respond to the trolls here? It just encourages them.

Trolls playing ping pong ties a forum right up. That's why they do it for hours on end.

 

[nobody's_hero]

Yeah, stop making fun of tariffs. They're awesome.

I wouldn't put it that way. But I was expecting doomsday prophecies to come true by "free market" think tanks, but what I see are businesses returning to the U.S., more job openings than unemployed people, and people getting off their asses and going to work again instead of sitting at home on food stamps. One can argue that this would have happened with or without tariffs, but that's kind of like trying to prove a negative at this point.

Thanks to China and Canada's trade war, we do have too much milk and soybeans now, which, I suppose means more flatulence. A tragedy no doubt.

Anyway there's a thread on this already that Swordsmyth updates like every 5 minutes, if you can get a word in there it might fit in more than a thread about Chicago being, well, Chicago.

 

[osan]

Cry me a river.

For one thing, who gives a poo about stupid ass video games? Yeah, they can be fun, but so what? There is nothing important in them. Not a whit. So either stop playing if the taxes are so offensive, or STFU and go on like the junkies most of those people are. I see little difference in principle between video addicts and the crack ho' who puts penises of questionable provenance into their mouths for token sums.

If you have no self-respect, that's fine. Just don't try to make it the John's fault. Nobody's got a gun to your head.

Humans.

 

[DamianTV]

Money Printing is Counterfeiting

Yes, this does relate to "Amusement Tax". First, we need to understand how our money works, as simply as it can be put:

• Monetary Policy - "Print" The Money (via Loans)
• Fiscal Policy - "Destroy" the Money (via Taxation)

All money printed must be destroyed. Every dollar in your pocket and bank acct represents someones debt to someone else. Welfare is no different, but instead of that Debt representing one person, it represents everyone who uses the US Dollar by using Inflation as an Invisible Tax on the Value of that dollar.

This "Amusement Tax" falls under the category of Fiscal Policy. It destroys the money, just as paying off a loan returns that money to the state it existed in initially, which was nothing. But back up two seconds, remember that Banks do NOT loan money they have, they create it out of thin air with the Magic of Fractional Reserve Lending. This is LEGAL COUNTERFEITING. What makes that Legal is the fact that the Repayment of that Loan does not allow that money to remain in existence.

There are two ways to "Destroy Money". Pay off a loan, and Taxes. Your Federal Income Tax payments made out to the IRS are used to pay the INTEREST that the US owes to the Federal Reserve Bank for use of its money. Thus, paying Taxes, indirectly, is a Loan Payment, and that money is subsequently also destroyed.

The idea of an "Amusement Tax" is made by rulers who are issuing Behavior Modification by issuance of Fines and Levies. They think that an Amusement Tax will generate revenue. They are partly right, and partly wrong. What they are really doing is merely applying the Belief, Money, Violence paradigm. If you "Believe" their words, then Amusement is a Behavioral Sin, which is sufficient grounds to punish people for partaking, thus, applying Money. Im quite sure if you avoid paying your Amusement Tax, they will apply Violence, by way of Imprisonment, thus completing the paradigm. Sadly, it falls perfectly into the Mental Trap that Taxation provides rewards of "improved" behaviors and receiving something of commensurate value in exchange. This is nothing more than an indication that the Govt spends far more than it takes in.

The Payouts can also come from Welfare. Give out too much in Welfare, and create new taxes to prevent the Money Supply from Hyperinflating.

The Life Cycle of the US Dollar as a Fiat Currency, and the World Reserve Fiat Currency is coming to an end. I would expect to see one of two things as a consequence:

• Increases in both Welfare and Taxation
• Introduction of New Forms of Taxation

The system is unbalanced and will remain unbalanced because those with the power to print the money have the power to print something else without consequence: Interest. Interest is inherently as dishonest as Counterfeiting because our money is Backed By Debt, so if you can "just print interest" then you can "just print debt" and "debt = money". Those with the power to Print Money, the Banks, will end up with Everything and you will end up with Nothing. The system will continue to function by bleeding out the value of the currency issued. Since you and I can not "just print money / debt", you and I are stuck holding the same quantity of money, which becomes more and more worthless. If this system could continue, in 100 years, the very idea of "Dollar Menu" or "Dollar Store" will adapt to reflect the value of the dollar, and we would end up with the "100 Dollar Store" or "100 Dollar Menu". Yes, the worst hamburgers imaginable would cost over a hundred bucks, in a hundred years, if this system did not collapse under its own weight.

Ignorance of the nature of Coin and Credit has gotten us into this mess, and expect to see more new taxes like it as an effort to keep a failed concept going, transferring everything from the people to the Money Changers. Even your elected leaders barely understand this. Perhaps it is time for New Leaders? Since we know "youre not voting hard enough" never fixes the issue, perhaps that New Leader should be YOU?

 

[Philhelm]

Are you not entertained?

 

[pcosmar]

Amused.

 

[Ender]

Cry me a river.

For one thing, who gives a poo about stupid ass video games? Yeah, they can be fun, but so what? There is nothing important in them. Not a whit. So either stop playing if the taxes are so offensive, or STFU and go on like the junkies most of those people are. I see little difference in principle between video addicts and the crack ho' who puts penises of questionable provenance into their mouths for token sums.

If you have no self-respect, that's fine. Just don't try to make it the John's fault. Nobody's got a gun to your head.

Humans.

Unless you're Ender Wiggins who saved the earth with video games.

These taxes are most likely unconstitutional which most taxes are- so we should all be somewhat concerned that everything is getting additional taxes upon taxes upon taxes.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Chicago's tariff on imports of entertainment cancels out Georgia's subsidy on the production of entertainment.

What subsidy?

Furthermore even if your characterization was correct there are two problems:

1 The Constitution prohibits the states from taxing interstate commerce and even if that weren't the case or shouldn't be the case we must abide by the rules until they can be changed. (that is why they didn't make it a tariff, game services based in the state or the city are not exempted)

2 That which is permissible isn't always advisable, Chicago and Illinois already overtax their residents and they didn't cut other taxes and shift to a tariff.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Why do u always respond to the trolls here? It just encourages them.

Because there are many people here who agree with them and I don't want noobs taken in by their lies.

The site staff won't ban them so somebody has to do battle with them.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Trolls playing ping pong ties a forum right up. That's why they do it for hours on end.

Tell it to the site staff, if the trolls aren't banned and nobody counters their lies then they win.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Cry me a river.

For one thing, who gives a poo about stupid ass video games? Yeah, they can be fun, but so what? There is nothing important in them. Not a whit. So either stop playing if the taxes are so offensive, or STFU and go on like the junkies most of those people are. I see little difference in principle between video addicts and the crack ho' who puts penises of questionable provenance into their mouths for token sums.

If you have no self-respect, that's fine. Just don't try to make it the John's fault. Nobody's got a gun to your head.

Humans.

If you don't like video games that is fine, this isn't about games so much as the fact that Chicago is trying to wring every loose nickle out of its residents.

 

[osan]

Unless you're Ender Wiggins who saved the earth with video games.

I'm so clueless on those fronts, I have no idea who that is.

These taxes are most likely unconstitutional which most taxes are- so we should all be somewhat concerned that everything is getting additional taxes upon taxes upon taxes.

All taxes are immoral.

Sadly, in this überscrewed world, it seems that at least some of them are necessary if a people is to defend itself against the predations of other populations. Then again, there's nothing to say that "government" is somehow better at managing national defense. I dunno... this crap all makes my head hurt anymore, and it's been hurting a lot lately, what with my new bad habit of elevated blood pressure. Then there's my other daughter who's decided to move to Barcelona to be near her sister and two niece/nephews.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Soon Xbox and Nintendo users will have to do the same thing. Unless they're already doing it.

 

[dude58677]

“Liberalism is a mental disorder”

 

[Swordsmyth]

I'm so clueless on those fronts, I have no idea who that is.

It's a reference to a character in a science fiction movie who succumbs to enemy brainwashing and becomes a traitor after winning the war for his side.

 

[osan]

If you don't like video games that is fine, this isn't about games so much as the fact that Chicago is trying to wring every loose nickle out of its resident.

I understand that. My point was that the players are whining about the tax on something the importance of which is just this side of zero. It appears all they can do it whine about the nasty taxes but will not suck it up like cowboys and deny that den of iniquity its revenue stream by refusing to play. They behave as despicable addicts and on that account I have no sympathy for them. Yeah, the überdouches in Chicago have no authority to do what they have done and to that point players' complaints are valid. But they can do something about it, yet apparently aren't doing it because it would seem their games are more important than the fact that they're being put over the wood. Once again, corruption of the affluent wins out over doing what is right. FAIL.

 

[osan]

It's a reference to a character in a science fiction movie who succumbs to enemy brainwashing and becomes a traitor after winning the war for his side.

Sounds like a Manchurian candidate.

 

[Ender]

It's a reference to a character in a science fiction movie who succumbs to enemy brainwashing and becomes a traitor after winning the war for his side.

NO.

It is a character in a BOOK who is a real hero & learns what the evil government he is living under is really doing to it's people as well as others.

Try reading.