I updated the article to link to Wikipedia's explanation of "sin tax." Seems like some folks are interpreting that as moral judgment on video games, which was not my intent.

Thank you for this -- I didn't mean "sin tax" as a sort of judgment on video games, I meant it as a class of things to be taxed.

For the record...yes, I was being sarcastic. I meant "viable compromise" in the sense that politicians see it that way, and thus get away with even proposing this legislation when they wouldn't normally be taken seriously. To your point, when money's involved, these laws don't get very far (as I also stated in the article). Thanks for reading the article, at least. :)