Half Priced Games + No Tax

[Rich]

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

[rezo]

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.

[Tracer]

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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[Melf]

Originally posted by flux=rad


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

Depends on what neighborhood you live in...

[Tracer]

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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[CypherUppercut]

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!

[Josh]

Originally posted by Rich
I'm upper middle class..

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

[Rich]

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!

[Melf]

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

[Tracer]

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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