Is it time for the entertainment industry to pay its fair share?

[digimon7068]

He's posting about internalizing externalities via Pigouvian taxes.

However, even Pigou questioned the efficacy of state levied taxes "getting it right."

i actually like plunkster's idea a lot...in fact, it actually makes a lot more sense from a cause-and-effect standpoint than the real-world examples that he is comparing it too.

 

[mrplunkey]

i actually like plunkster's idea a lot...in fact, it actually makes a lot more sense from a cause-and-effect standpoint than the real-world examples that he is comparing it too.

That's the account in you talking. You're trying to match revenues with expenses.

I also think Hollywood would go ape-shit crazy over an excise tax on gross revenues to pay for their messes, despite decades of telling other people to pay their fair share.

 

[digimon7068]

I got no issue although I do see the slope (ie how do you know when you've gone too far...ie do you tax PBS or CSPAN?).

that was already (indirectly) decided by the united states supreme court in jacobellis v. ohio 378 u.s. 184 (1964)..."i know it when i see it" -potter stewart

 

[miplank]

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[dabuffguy]

One thing that does need to be changed is the regulations for determining whether a movie is PG-13 or rated R.

PG-13 movies are increasingly more adult themed in many ways that they might as well do away with it altogether and have G, PG and R.


Saying "shit" 40 times in a movie is acceptable and a couple "fucks" are even creeping into PG-13 movies, as well as more intense violence and sexuality.

Sorry, but a 12 year old should not be watching stuff like that at all.

Also, under 17 should be be restricted from watching rated R movies regardless of adult consent. Many R movies have scenes that are pornographic which is illegal to present to a minor.


But, the industry doesn't care. They like money and could care less about the moral fabric of society.

As much garbage is readily available, it's making good parenting increasingly difficult because of the sheer amount and rate of exposure to inappropriate content.

People become a product of their environment. The primary environment is the home. Parents, don't let your kids watch trash, don't let your under aged children play excessively violent video games, and closely monitor their activity on the internet and strictly forbid viewing of pornographic and violent material. Teach your children to be kind, polite, obedient, compassionate, honest, forgiving and a person of integrity and moral uprightness.

The secondary environment is school, and children learn to apply the things I just mentioned in a social setting. Discipline them for being disrespectful and do not tolerate mistreating of peers and school staff.

If you do this from the beginning, your children will grow up properly. If you think giving a young child (under 16) a lot of personal freedom and privacy in today's society is a good idea, you are sorely mistaken.

 

[digimon7068]

That's the account in you talking. You're trying to match revenues with expenses.

I also think Hollywood would go ape-shit crazy over an excise tax on gross revenues to pay for their messes, despite decades of telling other people to pay their fair share.

it's a well documented fact that exposure to violence and inhumanity on tv and the big screen desensitizes and dehumanizes us...i just want to give credit where credit is due

 

[miplank]

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[digimon7068]

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[mrplunkey]

that was already (indirectly) decided by the united states supreme court in jacobellis v. ohio 378 u.s. 184 (1964)..."i know it when i see it" -potter stewart

The Miller test was developed in the 1973 case Miller v. California. It has three parts:
Look up prurient in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

-- Whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,

-- Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law,

-- Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

That describes 75% of the commercials on TV today.

 

[dabuffguy]

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