Casino operators: Table games in PA would narrow budget deficit…
Casino operators: Table games in PA would narrow budget deficit…
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Table games would narrow the budget deficit………AT WHAT COST TO PENNSYLVANIANS?
How much would Pennsylvanians have to lose at the table games to close the budget gap? How much would "casino operators" make in the process? DO YOU THINK WE ARE STUPID?
Show me ONE STATE that has gambled itself into prosperity. Just one, that's all I ask.
The last sentence sums it all up.
"No matter what kind of gambling is introduced, it's never going to be enough. The gambling interests have an insatiable appetite."
I smell another bait and switch. Slots were promised as relief to property taxes years ago. We all know how well that worked out. Now this is supposed to cure some of our budget deficit issues?
Ed needs to wake up and listen. The solution should not focus on where to find more money. It must focus on where to not spend money.
I know where to start putting the state government on a diet: WAMS.
Table games were bought and paid for by the gambling industry on the first go-around when slots-gambling was legislated and blessed by our distinguished Supreme Court. Rendell and the legislative leaders only wanted a descent interval to pass before backing the table games.
Only a public upraising (which won't happen) can now prevent table games from being added as part of the current budget discussions.
Next, will be the legalization of drugs at PA casinos, followed by legalizing prostitution in all PA casinos. Naturally, revenues to the state from the latter two activities will greatly reduce school property taxes.
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Careful there folks; it's starting to sound like social engineering, the realm of leftists.
That said, using budgetary concerns as leverage for table games is ludicrous. They're coming, we all know they are, but let's play the current game with the cards we've been dealt.
Will New Jersey kick Ed Rendell out of his beach house because he expanded gambling in Pennsylvania and took away their 'business'?
They don't have to come if the people simply say: "No."
Gambling helps us out here (Vegas), but it's not the savior. The massive contribution gaming has made to our state's economy has allowed us to maintain a low tax environment (up until now…the Democrats running the place seem to think raising sales taxes and DMV fees will rake in millions). I think gaming can be a supplement to a state's income, but if the rest of the economic environment sucks what good will it do? We have gaming, but if no one can afford to come play those games it doesn't do a damn thing.
The people won't say "no" and you know it. Maybe a few bible-thumpers, but most folks won't mind at all. But even if the people did say "no" it's gonna happen. What do you think PA is – an actual representative republic?
What we ought to do is accept the inevitable and argue in favor of the "proceeds" benefiting working taxpayers only, not seniors.
Is it common knowledge yet that seniors are quietly accepting $975 property tax rebate checks due to slots when the maximum was supposed to be $650? Meanwhile, working folks are mostly only getting the two-digit homestead exemption (and a push for Ed's 16% income tax hike).
Let the generational war begin!
Nothing will help the deficit unless the money taken in is applied to the deficit. You can't take new incoming revenue and use it to start or expand programs and get the deficit paid down at the same time. We need to pay what is owed and then spend no more than we take in. That's how you get rid of the deficit. It really isn't that complicated. Just simple math.
However, our State runs on political math. You project a dollar coming in, use that to borrow 3 more and then spend all 4.
Let me know your religious affiliation (if any?) so I can bash it
Not bashing any religion, just those who use it as an excuse for social engineering via fiat.