New Mexico and Video Games

I recently heard about a tax in New Mexico that is being put on people who play video games. I decided to look it up and found that it was true. New Mexico has decided to put a tax on video game equipment and televisions of 1% to help fund outdoor activities because they view the excessive use of this equipment as harmful. I cannot believe that people actually think this is fair to the people of the video game world. Although I am someone who does not play video games that often, I can even see that this is unfair. I understand if the state of New Mexico thinks that they need more money in their outdoor activities account and they need to find a way to do it, but singling out a select group who probably do not want anything to do with outdoor activities is wrong. You would never see a tax put on someone who buys a basketball that goes to support video game production, so why would it even be considered to go the other way. I feel that the issue with kids playing too many video games stems from the home and the government does not need to get involved. If a child has no interest in sports or outdoor life, then the parent is responsible to provide another way for the child to get exercise. It seems like the solution the government is proposing isn’t solving the supposed problem. They generalized a stereotype of the typical video-gamer to the whole state and are now making every citizen of the state pay even though they may be active, healthy, contributing members of society who happen to play games.