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Unconstitutional Video Game Law Costs California $2 Million

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In hopes of protecting the children of California from the ravages of violent video games, then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to push through a law that would fine retailers $1000 for each infraction of selling a violent game to an underage child. However, in the wake of appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck down the law, California is now forced to pay the legal fees of all parties to the tune of two million dollars."

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  1. Nice! by ZorinLynx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good. Maybe this will teach future political leaders that censorship is a bad idea.

    Oh who am I kidding, these idiots never learn anything.

    1. Re:Nice! by kelemvor4 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Schwartsy doesnt care, hes already out of office. Which of course is the counter argument to term limits and what not. I am just wondering where California will get the 2 million. They can barely cover costs as it is. And their highways are the worst ever. It is almost like they havent repaved any of them in years.

      They were going to repave the highways but then they got high.

    2. Re:Nice! by popeye44 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Well, As I am one of those Caltrans employees.. I can tell you where the money goes that we take in in Gas Taxes, Construction taxes, etc etc. It goes in the General fund. Not transportation accounts. "except for certain taxes which do" So Lets say we have a good year.. and our transportation fund is swollen. The State comes over with its hand out and takes from that fund to put into the general fund. As you can imagine this practice has a way of making roads very hard to maintain. On top of that we have say 40 people to take care of around 1200 miles of road. Between staffing issues, cuts, promotions, vacations, sick days etc. There are typically 26-32 of those people at work. On a good day those folk actually get to do some maintenance on the road. On most days.. they respond to accidents and complaints from the public. So this is a snippet from my point of view. I do live in a fairly populated area.. but NOTHING like LA. SF etc. You can extrapolate that there are more people in those areas.. but by and large CT is an engineering organization and it's more fun to build than maintain.. So that is pretty much how we operate. build more ignore the old.

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  2. Interesting by colinrichardday · · Score: 5, Funny

    Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to prevent children from experiencing violence?