Corpus Christi rancher Star Locke, has proposed eliminating property taxes in the Lone Star State with revenue from taxing three things he finds undesirable. Specifically, Locke is proposing a $10,000 per-abortion tax on medical clinics that perform abortions and a 50 percent tax on all soda that "contains added glucose, fructose, sucrose to the beverage for sale to humans". However, gamers will be especially alarmed by the third part of Locke's property-tax-relief proposal--a 100 percent tax on "violent video games."
Locke's other platform promises call for the repeal of all alcoholic beverage laws and a 50 percent "grease tax" on "all food prepared by deep-frying or cooking in any form of oil or grease for human consumption."
The man is insane, and a longshot challenger for the Republican nominee for governor (luckily enough). He won't win, his ideas are a little too radical; I'm sure there must be some rights being violated in his proposals.
Texas politician proposes 100 percent game tax(Gamespot)
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Wait a minute. He's proposing a $10,000 tax per abortion on abortion clinics and the headline is about the GAME TAX?! Granted it's a game site, but the exhorbitant abortion tax gets mentioned barely in passing and they do a follow-up on greasy food. I bet they fancy themselves liberal too. With friends like that a pro-choice woman on the left doesn't need enemies (but she's got them anyway).