Half Priced Games + No Tax

Well, my brother just recently joined the Navy. And yesterday, when asking for a new TV, my father told me he and my brother were going to go to Fort Hamilton (local army base) and get me a new tv because it was half price and no tax. So I then asked my brother if they sold video games...and his response put me into heaven. I will now be walking home with new video games for 24.99. I just have to beg to get a ride to the base every so often now. I would recommend anyone who knows anyone in the military, to ask them if they could take them to a base to check out the stores...Oh boy I can't wait to go see what they have. I'll update this thread once I actually go, and tell you all the prices of everything.. :)
Gotta love the military selling you stuff for cheap.

Wei...r..d.

Cool.

Speaking of deals...

Castlevania: HoD will be $23 bucks at Circuit City this week. Be there suckas.

military bases are very useful in this way.

Why don't you just collect welfare while you're at it?

Was that a bad attempt at a joke? I'm upper middle class..
Why would anyone in their right mind, rich or not, not save 30 bucks a game if they could? Or are you just a fucking moron looking for trouble?

Well...Johnny has a point. My tax dollars are subsidizing your half-price video game purchases. I don't really like the sound of that.

I'm not placing the blame on Rich - the federal government is to blame, he is merely taking advantage of it.

Can't say I'm thrilled about it. Thousands of people living below the poverty line in this country, and the government subsidizes TV sets and video games instead of more housing and food. That kind of prioritizing is pretty fucked up.

Well unless the Navy is sold games cheap, the public is paying that $30. You're getting a public hand out that amounts to welfare, so you might as well abuse that system as well and buy even more games.

Hey, atleast a fellow gamer is taking advantage of tax dollars.... it's either that or gold plated toilet seats for congressmen that cost $20k apiece...

It just wouldn't be America if the US government spent tax dollars wisely.

It's meant to be a discount for military personel that defend our country, since they get paid shit, so they can get some nice things cheaper. Not for civilians to drive down to the base and treat it like a mall.

Jeezus Rice, it's his frigging brother!

If it was maybe his friend from school letting him buy stuff, then you can bitch (although I still don't see the problem here), but it's his brother who has access to the stuff, and he can buy his little (or big?) bro whatever the hell he wants.

Let's argue about better things.

All y'all need to chill. The government is wasting your tax dollars on more worthless things anyway.

If I was Rich I'd go there every week.

rape that bitch blind... rather see kids getting cheap video games than g.w. getting another bomb to drop on a 3rd world civilian village.

I think the base is more than capable of deciding who can and cannot purchase things there.

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Well...Johnny has a point. My tax dollars are subsidizing your half-price video game purchases. I don't really like the sound of that.

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You're right! They should get rid of those half-price games. Then I'm sure the government would lower your taxes accordingly.

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Can't say I'm thrilled about it. Thousands of people living below the poverty line in this country, and the government subsidizes TV sets and video games instead of more housing and food. That kind of prioritizing is pretty fucked up.

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On the other hand, the members of your military are voluntarily making mediocre wages and giving up their lives for you. Half price videogames only seems fair, right?

And you're always tired because you have obstructive sleep apnea. You are only getting half the normal amount of sleep at most per night. Have your doctor send you to a sleep lab.

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Originally posted by Baron
Well...Johnny has a point. My tax dollars are subsidizing your half-price video game purchases. I don't really like the sound of that.

I'm not placing the blame on Rich - the federal government is to blame, he is merely taking advantage of it.

Can't say I'm thrilled about it. Thousands of people living below the poverty line in this country, and the government subsidizes TV sets and video games instead of more housing and food. That kind of prioritizing is pretty fucked up.

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The government also subsidizes those under the poverty line. Whether they do a good job of it or not is another matter. Personally, I would think it better off to the individual to give back to community rather than taxes bleeding it out of someone, and even then, the money may not even make it anywhere (or anywhere where the individual would want it to go if it were up to him/her as to where to do the 'giving').

Oh, and I guess any other perk at a governemtnal job is no big deal, right? I mean, when was the last time someone bitched about health, paid vacation, raises, and such as being unfair to the taxpayers?

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I mean, when was the last time someone bitched about health, paid vacation, raises, and such as being unfair to the taxpayers?

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Not everyone gets half-price electronics as a job perk. If there was any justice in this world, we'd all get daily deliveries of free food, games, and...erm, clothes. It's the least the government could do, considering I never see the money I earn for 5 months out of each year, as it goes straight into Uncle Sam's pockets.

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On the other hand, the members of your military are voluntarily making mediocre wages and giving up their lives for you. Half price videogames only seems fair, right?

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Nobody puts a gun to your head and demands that an individual joins the military. You always have a choice (even if there is a draft). As for mediocre wages, I once made $3.75 an hour working at a freaking McDonalds as a teenager. I know what mediocre wages are, and the armed forces pay far more than what I was making. Not to mention the medical benefits and college money they give you. Ever see Mickey D's helping out their employees in a similar vein? Nope.


Now, back to Bangai-O! Man, level 25 is a doozy...

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As for mediocre wages, I once made $3.75 an hour working at a freaking McDonalds as a teenager. I know what mediocre wages are, and the armed forces pay far more than what I was making. Not to mention the medical benefits and college money they give you. Ever see Mickey D's helping out their employees in a similar vein? Nope.

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Did the customers at McDonald's ever try to shoot you?

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Originally posted by Baron
Nobody puts a gun to your head and demands that an individual joins the military.

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If that's not selfish and short sighted, I don't know what is. Or perhaps you just preferred Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Al Quada, and any other terror there may be to roam the world, free to do as they please?

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You always have a choice (even if there is a draft).

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If you are drafted you go into the military. Period. Anything else is a federal offense.

We could just not have a military at all. Surely that'd free up a lot of money for other things. Like half off video games for everybody, or perhaps helping the poor as you suggested. For some reason I just don't think that'd work out very well.

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Well unless the Navy is sold games cheap, the public is paying that $30. You're getting a public hand out that amounts to welfare, so you might as well abuse that system as well and buy even more games.

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It's not a public handout, it's a perk for having a brother working for YOUR freedom. (assuming you live in the US)

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It's meant to be a discount for military personel that defend our country, since they get paid shit, so they can get some nice things cheaper. Not for civilians to drive down to the base and treat it like a mall.

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If it makes you any more happy, I'll have my brother go alone, buy some games, then give them to me as gifts...would that make you feel better?

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We could just not have a military at all. Surely that'd free up a lot of money for other things. Like half off video games for everybody, or perhaps helping the poor as you suggested. For some reason I just don't think that'd work out very well.

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I've got a hunch we're better off with the former.

Now, let's look at it like this. The tax dollars that you pay WILL be payed, whether the military has half priced electronics or not. If they aren't going into electronics, they'r going into something else that would be debateable. So, why even bother arguing it? No matter what, your paying taxes for something that you would debate.

I don't recall games being discounted when I got them from bases. just no tax. o_O FF Legend 2 was a good $39.99 I think. new. 10 years ago.

Welfare accounts for 1% of the Federal Budget.

Profit making corporations grab a total of $170 Billion in federal funds a year. (For instance - Exxon claimed $3 Million in tax deductions for the Valdez Oil Spill; Lockheed recived $1 Billion for plant shutdowns and relocations.)

The stated problems with Federal Spending is misplaced in this thread.

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Did the customers at McDonald's ever try to shoot you?

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Depends on what neighborhood you live in... ;)

While I worked at Gamestop my store was held up and it was in a nice neighborhood too. 2 Friends I worked with were taped up in the bathroom. I was outside when it happend and I (stupidly) put myself on the line telling them to bring my friends out. They left with the money, but got none of the PS2's they were trying to load up. While I distracted the robbers, Will and Juan (my frineds and co-workers) sliped out through the back. Gamestop pays starting employees (who ALWAYS close) 6.00 per hour in Texas. The old Taco Bell down by my old house was also robed, 3 people died - one was a hispanic guy who prepared the food. Down the street from where I work now, there's a Vietnamese 'Fast Food' place (really BAD food). It was also hit - though no one died. Across the Gamestop when I worked, a chineese place called Fung's Kitchen was robbed at gunpoint by two teenagers. They held one teenage boy who was eating there hostage - wehn the police showed up and ruined their amature robbery the kicked the kid though the large glass window and ran away. The kid died from shock. Houston's Memorial and Hermann park plays host to 98 (on average) rapes a year. When I worked at a Jason's Deli in the area (at minimum wage) I had to walk through Hermann park to get home. It's nice in the day, I think, but it's not safe at night sadly. I never experienced (thankfull) any violent crimes there while trying to get home and sleep - but I could have - and I wasn't being paid enough to suffer that peril.

Many people at these military bases are seldom sent into action, or put into greater degrees of peril way than your average McDonalds worker in 5th Ward, South-Central or most of New Orleans. I appreciate the efforts of many in the armed services. I question thier causes, not to disrespect them - but that the ones calling the shots NEED to be questioned. In any case, defence spending is not really all that concerns me.

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I grew up next to a military base and my Dad is retired Navy. I still have free access to the base until I turn 23 next month. :(

Games on the base aren't half off, none of the bases I've been to have had half-off games unless it was some special sale. They are tax free though. Sometimes items on base are cheaper, but not all the time. But they do have good sales every once in awhile. I bought my Gamecube and Xbox at the base to save on tax!

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I'm upper middle class..

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No, you are a fifteen year old living with your parents. They are upper middle class. You have not contributed to their financial prosperity.

Blah, you know what I mean.. When I talk about anything finacial, of coarse it's going to be from my parent's standpoint, at least for the next 10 years. (only because I plan on going to law school, with help from my parents, other wise it would be less than 10. And in response to anything else you might throw at me, I DO pay for everything I own, from my computer to my tv/games, excluding cable bill and food. :))

And tracer, that doesn't exactly sound like a nice neighborhood.. =P

And again, I can't verify games half off, because I haven't been there yet, but I've heard they aren't full priced, and because the TVs were half off,according to my brother, I assumed the games would be too.. Anyways, if they are only taxless, I guess saving 5-6 bucks a game is always good!

Tracer, what part of Houston do you live in? My father lives in Seabrook (that's a suburb, I think).

Seabrook is East/Northeast of me. I seldom venture out to those places... Houston covers something like 590 square miles. The important parts combined total to about 100 square miles give or take. The sprawl is horrendous, so I see very little of it besides the "Real" parts.

I've lived in a lot of places in and around Houston. The Taco Bell I spoke of is in Aleif, which is a pretty rotten place really.

I used to live right by my old Gamestop in Sugar Land/First Colony in the second wealthiest county/parish in the nation (Ft. Bend county). That's where the Fung's Kitchen and my Gamestop were (actually, it's prosperous enough to have 2 Gamestops within a mile of each other). The moderate amount of crime there is attributed to what I call afluenza - kids who think they own the world and can (and routinely do) get away with anything. Both my robbery and the one at Fung's were commited my very well off High School age kids. They learned how to act from their parents from all I can tell. Most residents are high ranks in the whole Texas Oil Money which is bleeding the world right now. Because of thier companies and the government officials they pay to put in place Houston has the worst air in the nation (Bush, as governor, de-regulated pollution for Oil companies, taxed the middle class at rates 2 1/3 times greater than the wealthy, and lowered emmission standards for larger vehicles so it would take 5 cars at current emmssions standards to equal the out put of one compliant SUV. Then there's the whole matter of GWB useing the entire Texas Teacher Retirement fund to repay his personal debts, then condeming farmers land to cheaply build a new stadium for the Texas Ranger, which he owned part of, even though the city of Arlington had already paid $200 Million to have it built... I could go on... yet idiots in Texas love him.) Sorry for the rant.


I had my own place in the Texas Medical Center with station82o - that's when I worked at the Jason's Deli. The area all around there is what Houston is about. Most of the rest sucks; suburbs, low lying shopping malls, and SUV/Truck dealerships mainly.

I now live in Richmon, TX with my parents. It's not very close to anything, but I work and spend most of my time in South West Houston. Your dad lives about 2 hours away from me as the crow flys.

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