So, how about Ronald Reagan? After all, it was during his administration that the debt/GDP ration began to rise/

All it takes to increase (or decrease) taxes is passage of a bill in Congress. If this recent bill does not provide for sufficient revenue to operate the government, voters can elect better congress-critters who will do what the voters want, right?

First, two of your links are dead, perhaps you should visit them before copy/pasting them in a comment.

Second, the ithp.org article is heavily referencing a meta-analysis which has had serious questions raised about it’s methodology.

“The issue of violent video game influences on youth violence and aggression remains intensely debated
in the scholarly literature and among the general public. Several recent meta-analyses, examining
outcome measures most closely related to serious aggressive acts, found little evidence for a relationship
between violent video games and aggression or violence. In a new meta-analysis, C. A. Anderson et al.
(2010) questioned these findings. However, their analysis has several methodological issues that limit the
interpretability of their results. In their analysis, C. A. Anderson et al. included many studies that do not
relate well to serious aggression, an apparently biased sample of unpublished studies, and a “best
practices” analysis that appears unreliable and does not consider the impact of unstandardized aggression
measures on the inflation of effect size estimates. They also focused on bivariate correlations rather than
better controlled estimates of effects. Despite a number of methodological flaws that all appear likely to
inflate effect size estimates, the final estimate of r .15 is still indicative of only weak effects. Contrasts
between the claims of C. A. Anderson et al. (2010) and real-world data on youth violence are discussed.”

Please keep in mind that some psychologists have just as much monetary motivation in vilifying video games as some industry experts have in protecting them.

The psychological questions surrounding violent video games are far from settled, but the numbers are irrefutable. Our nation’s gun violence is so far beyond the rest of the modernized world, that digest as much or more violent media than we do, that you cannot reasonably argue that violent video games have anything to do with it.

My argument here is not to protect the sell of violent video games to children. I support the rating systems and their enforcement. My argument is that scapegoating video games is a distraction tactic to avoid dealing with the real problems of our nation’s gun proliferation and mental health crises.

I will remove any further comments from you that do not provide credible evidence to refute the fact that video games do not cause violent attacks. Seriously, you have added nothing to the discussion and I am in no mood to indulge your idiocy further.