jmn1207
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join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
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1 edit | You Betcha!
After reading a bit more into this whole ISP gambling ban agenda, it seems that it all comes down to money, as usual. The morality factor is nothing more than a front to gather support. This is all about the government trying to get as much money as they can from the people, and not about protecting Minnesotans from sin. Although, if they allow Brett Favre to be the QB for the Vikings this season, we might have to reevaluate the idea that they need cleansing of some sort.
»www.americanexperiment.org/uploa···ames.pdf
• Gambling is a regressive source of revenue.
• The negative social consequences of gambling fall more heavily on low income people than on the wealthy.
• Social costs appear to outweigh the economic benefits, so gambling cannot be justified as a form of economic development.
• State revenue from gambling is unreliable because the amount fluctuates.
• It is difficult for taxpayers to hold state government accountable for gambling revenues, as they can for tax revenues .
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jester121
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Lake Zurich, IL
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| said by jmn1207  :It is difficult for taxpayers to hold state government accountable for gambling revenues, as they can for tax revenues The second part of this sentence made me giggle.  |
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jmn1207
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join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
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| That bullet must have slipped passed the editor. 
"It is difficult for taxpayers to hold state government accountable for gambling revenues, as they can for or tax revenues." |
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gigante
join:2000-06-30
Spring, TX | reply to jester121
Yes that was funny. About as funny as the proposed ban. Good times. |
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