Proceeds from the new tax would go towards two new state funds devoted to childhood outdoor education and bullying prevention. Fourkiller told Oklahoma TV station KFOR that such funding was only appropriate, citing unspecified research showing video game playing being linked to obesity and bullying. There's even a game called Bully, Fourkiller pointed out, a situation he reportedly found unbelievable.

"A gentleman shot a police officer and stole his car. He had been playing Grand Theft Auto," Fourkiller went on to tell the station, likely referring to a 2003 case against Ohio's Dustin Lynch. Lynch's case was a favorite cause of former Florida lawyer and anti-game-violence activist Jack Thompson, who was also instrumental in pushing for an Oklahoma law seeking to limit violent game sales to minors. That law, passed in 2006, was struck down by an Oklahoma District Court in 2007.

A "minuscule" tax of as little as 1 cent per $100 of financial transactions globally would raise more than $200 billion a year according to the International Monetary Fund, the letter stated. Transaction tax proponents argue that it would not only generate much-needed federal revenue, but slow the kind of high-speed stock and derivatives trading that sent markets into a "flash crash" last year.