While the cause is good, raising taxes is not the answer. It should be up to the parent to control their child's waistline.

Do we really want to give all control of our lifestyles over to the federal government?

I am sadly past the point of believing in my fellow citizen taking care of their personal responsibilities. I have watched too many who are simply too lazy or too ignorant to ensure their responsibility to others, be it their children, elder family members, or neighbors, to trust they will do the right thing.

Living on a planet with 6.5 billion people and counting, I fully believe there needs to be accountability forced onto those who will not take it up for themselves.

Sad, but true.

That is quite a hilarious economic policy. Reactionary taxes like that make me laugh. Maybe should throw an extra tax on books to fund some public entertainment, as books are boring .

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Living on a planet with 6.5 billion people and counting, I fully believe there needs to be accountability forced onto those who will not take it up for themselves.

Sad, but true.

Ya sounds good.. But you know... TV Video games, and porn don't make someone fat, its the crap they eat.

And if you notice most people who play Video Games in general are skinny people like myself. So taxing games isn't the answer.. I say tax the crap ass food we all like to eat.. you know...... McDonald's, Wendy's, ahhh Burger King. and what not.

That's like saying GTA makes people go out and kill other people.. Get over it..

People are fat cause they are lazy and don't wanna fix a problem they have, they think science will cure their lazy ass, but siting around and taking pills or something... They don't realize effort needs to be applied to it so they don't do it.. cause its to much work. Plus Wii game out and is very interactive so using Video Games as a cop out is bs.

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I am going to say at least 80% of the people who are fat are fat cause they are lazy and don't wanna do nothing.

They sit there and complain I am fat bla bla.. and never do a damn thing about it. They go I am fat I go on diets and bla and it don't do anything.. Well wtf they diet for like 3 mins and then head to the next burger joint.. I think they should do what they did for smoking.. screw the fast food industry... They are the ones giving the people what they want..

Ohh my above post, I will bet anyone 100 bucks that since Wii is so interactive to play that most fat people wont pick it up.. And according to some reports PS3 is going to follow suit.

In other words if it has effort in the title of any game or something.. There will not be any fat people to be found.. Why cause they are lazy and wanna blame others for their being fat, in reality they just sit there and eat and eat and eat..

Hell they had a documentary on discovery about some fat ass person that weighed like a half a ton, they got him surgery and whatnot to help him lose weight...

You know the outcome?? exactly.. It isn't games porn or TV its the food and the laziness associated with being fat.

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I want to boldly express that am stating actually experience in what I have seen in life. If its sounds rude and whatever... Sorry about that but facts are facts.. cant show me otherwise. Except the few 2% who actually don't wanna be fat and actually do something about it.. as in exercising and whatever.
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How sweet of them to burden themselves with all our troubles, they are so caring, kind, and brimming with filial affection.

I haven't felt this spoiled since I was in the crib.

Instead of taxing the middle and lower classes on their entertainment choices to pay for education under the guise of "preventing obesity", why don't we tax the corporations that make the TV's, sell the ad's on the TV's, sell the junk food that people eat at fast food restaurants.... etc.

I think that every advertiser that markets toys to kids on cartoon network, nickelodeon, Disney channel...etc, should have to pay higher taxes. Why not have some of the wealthy people who are capitalizing off of the middle and lower classes pay some of the tax?

It is in societies best interest to have an educated youth. The burden shouldn't be the working class's alone to bear. The entire system is screwed and a tax on entertainment is really a poor solution if you ask me.

They wouldn't tax wii games, right? I mean some people are actually losing weight by playing the Wii.

Anyway, it's just ridiculous to do this. As already said, it makes a lot more sense to tax fast food and other unhealthy foods. If it's cheaper to eat healthier foods then people will gravitate more towards them. As long as they taste good, if not, we'll still have a problem.

Taxing games or tv's means people just buy fewer games or smaller TV's, but they'd still be able to entertain themselves with those things and stay on their behinds. Instead of playing two games for 3 or 4 hours, a kid can just as easily decide to play one game for 6-8 hours instead. You definitely have to go after the unhealthy food instead. Today people could hand the cashier a 5 and walk out with 5 cheeseburgers off the dollar menu. I think that if a tax is created the quantity of food a person buys should have an affect on this tax. the more items a person buy's the higher the tax percentage for each item. I'd want to be more strict on a guy coming in buying 5 cheeseburgers with this tax than I would a guy coming in for one burger and a side of fries.