| Reading these postings makes me very aware that most people don't know how the taxes work that come from a casino. The state sets what percentage of taxes goes to the state, and what goes to the city the casino resides in. These taxes that are being used in NKCs case are not voted on or demanded by its residents.
Here is a little information about NKC. It is a small town filled with blue collar workers that for the majority cannot afford to pay Time Warner's high prices. There are a lot of young starting families and older retired people. NKC taking casino money (which they have no say so in how much they get) to implement a broadband/telephone service is the best thing for this town.
Hopefully other towns across the country can do the same so we can catch up to other parts of this country and the world. This country used to be the innovator for new technology, but that is not the case anymore. We don't put enough into infrastructure and education to keep us playing at that top notch level we used to. Japan and China are constantly surpassing us. We are now in an economy where the US dollar is not all powerful like it used to be. |
