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Where's the Payoff in Gambling?
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| September 9, 2014
| Phyllis Schlafly
Posted on 09/09/2014 7:20:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: grania
Back in my home province, as I mentioned earlier, VLTs (video lotto terminals - slot machines essentially) were the first type of legalized gambling (other than lotteries and bingo) to appear. Probably the most destructive kind. They popped up in all kinds of businesses, and kids were playing them, too. People didn’t like that, so they moved them into bars where only adults would have access. Still far too easy access to a very addictive form of gambling. Bad enough having a casino within a 1/2 hour or so of everyone, but when you can play the slots in every bar...
Alberta has these, too, and I think maybe New Brunswick, and I’m sure some states have dabbled with them. Probably the worst possible and most destructive way to bring gambling in, but a big money-maker for the province.
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posted on
09/09/2014 3:15:31 PM PDT
by
-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
To: Kaslin
...1,400 hotel rooms...Will hold a LOT of 'homeless' folks!
(Some MADE that way by gambling!)
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posted on
09/10/2014 5:58:37 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Morpheus2009
I am no psychiatrist, but I have heard gambling isn’t too easy to treat.
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:00:04 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: -YYZ-
Anyway, I just find it interesting how for a lot time gambling was generally viewed as a disreputable (or shameful) and immoral activity, and then the government decided it needed the money and legalized, and suddenly it was if there was nothing wrong with gambling at all, since the government approved.All SIN has been legalized by the gummint; even murder.
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:01:53 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: GeronL
If your customers aren’t from out of state, your just moving revenue from sales tax on something else to lottery/casino, not generating more overall.Tada!
People WILL spend every bit of their money on SOMETHING.
What percentage of that something is going to be taxes collected from the buyers to give to the gummint to sustain it's operations is the key.
Deep in the recesses of the mind, gambling IS a bad endevour, so folks don't feel bad when gummint sucks a large chuck of it away.
They are fooled into thinking that THEY are not paying it!
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:06:21 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
A very small tribe of only a few hundred people...Uh; which one?
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:07:53 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:09:13 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The Pima are an odd bunch. Often black in skin tone, but a purplish black, not a brownish black like Negroes. Lamanites!
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:12:57 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Vigilanteman
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:13:48 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
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posted on
09/10/2014 8:35:06 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
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posted on
09/10/2014 9:25:53 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
The truly odd part is that some Pima are rail thin and extremely strong. I knew one Pima woman who was a Kenpo black belt who amazed everyone with feats of strength and endurance. My favorite was her putting four cinder blocks on end, putting her toes on two, her hands on the other two, and doing push ups far below the “plane” of her back.
Ouch. Just looking at it.
Very small hands and feet that were like being hit by bullets, even protected with fighting body armor.
She got a BS in engineering. Eventually she became a USMC officer, and just ran circles around the men. She complained to her teacher some weeks in that the food was too rich, so she was gaining weight, and she couldn’t get enough exercise.
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posted on
09/10/2014 9:47:06 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: Kaslin
Why don't they just raise taxes on the winnings, and use that to pay off the building loans?
You don't need as many people gambling if you take more of a cut from those who do...
It's SARCASM, dangit!
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posted on
09/10/2014 9:49:46 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
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posted on
09/10/2014 6:59:19 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: cripplecreek
No money to pay water bills, no money to pay property taxes...plenty for the slots.
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posted on
09/10/2014 7:04:12 PM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
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