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UK To Mull High Video Game Taxes — To Fight Knife Crime
chareverie writes "The Prime Minister of the UK is being urged to impose high taxes on violent video games in an effort to reduce the number of knife-related crime. The request comes from Richard Taylor, who argues that young people 'feel that the law has no control over them. They just feel that they can go on the streets and do whatever they like.' He doesn't have a definitive number on how much to tax on the offensive video games, but says that they should be 'very high.' Rap music is also voiced to be a concern due to the alleged negativity and language. Taylor's son, Damilola Taylor, was killed in November 2000 at the age of 10 by knife stabbing."
England, what the hell is wrong with you?
I think, for the last 30 years or so, we've been trying to become more like America.
I don't know who to blame more - Raegan, Thatcher for their 'free market' policies and 'special relationship'; or Blair for the "I'm middle class, therefore I count for more than you scum, so shut up and let me do things my way because I'm the only one who can fix everything" attitude to policy, or Brown for the idiotic "no more boom and bust", "I will not let house prices get out of control and damage the economy" (LOL!) economic incompetence.
Its no wonder the youth are disaffected, though they've always been like that, but now they (rightly) really feel like they have no stake in society. Its not like the 60s when the hippie generation grew up and became accountants, or the 70s when the punk generation grew up and became businessmen, or the 80s when everyone was a self-interested tosser, or the 90s when all the ravers grew up and became property developers. Youth of today really have f*ck all to look forward to - even those not living in seriously overcrowded, ruined estates full of insignificantly-paid immigrants and criminals, ruled over by totally incompetent councillors and lazy, misguided and seriously overpaid public officials.