GOP to violent video game makers...no soup for you!

Article originally published on Kupeesh!

Research and Development, the simple fact of the matter is that business doesn't happen without it.  Whether you're creating the next "Flappy bird" or tending crops in the breadbasket of America  you get more done because of it.

So when the new GOP tax plan came out of the House this week there should have been a collective cheer.  After all, they're proposing a permanent R&D tax credit that finally lets business rest a little easier when they open those purse strings.

Here's where it gets stupid...

Is it something in the air?  It seems like this is the month for legislation coming out of far right field.  This time we're not "protecting" religious freedom, however.  No, instead we're talking about R&D tax credits for everyone except companies that make of all things, violent video games.

Under the new Republican tax plan, you can make bombs, guns and weaponized Swine Flu all while safely expecting a kickback from the government.  Make a game any more violent than Tetris, however, and you're out of luck.

What constitutes a violent game anyway?  The presence of a gun?  Well that lets out Asteroids.  War? Then I'm thinking Angry Birds may be out too.  They're trying to slaughter pigs for god's sake!  Some nutcase will probably  take out the country's bacon supply!

 Better forget about any of those "God" games too.  They're just breeding grounds for homicidal megalomaniacs.  You know who they are, building cities and then laughing as they set them ablaze.  Why they might as well be terrorists!

My old high school social studies teacher told us all about fallacies.  It seems Republicans have bought into a couple of them this time. 

I'm thinking we've got the fallacy of the Straw Man as we try to misdirect attention away from the real problem and find an easy scapegoat.   Hot on its heels is the Slippery slope where we're asked to believe that because teenage males may enjoy violent video games that another massacre is inevitable.

Remember when Dick Cheney shot his friend on a hunting trip?  He didn't play video games but still managed to rearrange the poor guy's face with the business end of his rifle.  Maybe if he played Duck Hunt he would've learned the difference.

It's an election year so I'm going to chock this one up to politics.