According to Merriam-Webster the definition of stupid is: a: slow of mind Obtuse; b: given to unintelligent decisions or acts; acting in an unintelligent or careless manner, c: lacking intelligence or reason.
Some people may be offended by this blog, to which I will apologize that you are offended. But I just couldn’t help it after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about how Zynga made $600 million dollars last year selling virtual fish, cows, chickens, pigs and other livestock and assorted items. Now first if you don’t understand, virtual means that it exists only on the internet or in the imagination, like the tooth fairy. It is not something that you can touch, taste, smell. It is not a physical thing.
People are paying $4.00 for virtual chickens and $3. to $4 for virtual translucent fish. And it is estimated that the sell of virtual items will net some $2.2 billion in revenue for the companies who get stupid people to buy these pretend products next year.
So here is an easy way for the government to raise $220 million in revenue that I’m sure anyone with the common sense God gave lettuce won’t object too. Let’s charge a 10% real tax on these virtual things. After all if they will buy an imaginary chicken for $4.00 surely they won’t mind helping reduce the national debt by paying an extra 40 cents. We can call it the virtual reality tax or taxing stupid people or practicing the theory of evolution. In the games they can call it a livestock tax.
Now $220 million is nothing compared to the deficit but it’s still $220 million and it’s a tax that smart people can avoid. After all we charge much higher taxes on things like cigarettes and alcohol and gasoline which the majority of hard working Americans have to have for their cars since the government made a deal with GM many years ago to kill mass transit and put a car in every garage.
President Obama says that everyone needs to pay their fair share and I agree lets start making stupid people pay their fair share too, before we raise taxes on the job creators.
