Posted on 01/11/2007 8:18:59 PM PST by Dubya
There's a proposal floating around Austin that would expand legalized gambling in Texas.
Gambling already is legal, so it's not a moral question. We have bingo, computer dating, driving on the Southwest Freeway, horse racing and dog racing and, of course, the lottery.
The proposal simply would expand gambling to include 12 resort-style casinos (two in Harris County and one in Galveston), video slots at horse tracks and gambling on American Indian reservations.
Now I say to the Legislature the same thing I was screaming at the Houston Texans all season:
Pass it!
I could list all the potential benefits of legalizing casino gambling, like $3.2 billion in tax revenues for the state, with $1.6 billion helping send kids to college. Cities and counties would get $800 million. Thousands of people, including Wayne Newton, would find work in Texas.
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We would be taking $$$ out of the pockets of people in Louisiana. So let's pass gambling in Texas then use the money to send all the Katrina criminals back to the Democratic plantation. /sarcasm off. kind of..
Only if the Indian casino's pay their fair share in taxes. Most don't pay anything but they take money from the states. It's time for these people to get off of welfare.
"Gambling already is legal, so it's not a moral question. "
Heh. If it's legal, it's moral. Is that the secular humanism socons complain about?
This won't affect the extent of the crash one bit -- the nation will be just as dead and corrupt, with gambling or without.
So bring it on. America, it was nice knowing you.
I am against it, sorry my friend. My in-laws live in Louisiana and I HATE all the casino billboards every inch of the way along IH10. They are incredibly loud, pitiful, and hideous.
The lottery is a tax on the stupid, and I can't begin to think of words strong enough to describe how I feel about the owners/operators of casinos. Really sad. Keep 'em in other states, but don't screw up Texas any more than it already has been!
Just my 2 cents, but that's how I feel about it.
Where have I heard this mantra before here in Texas? It's for the chilrun and their schools!!! Please, they claim it is another one of their "be all/end all" schemes.
Kewl! And if you lose, then what...?
Immediate shutdown of all thought processes initiated...
Casinos are "pie in the sky" economic self delusion.
Period.
Forget morals. They are economic losers, costing society much more than they "produce".
NIMBY?
Get rid of it all.
But it's not going to happen.
Amen. Dumbest quote I've seen in weeks.
Let's don't.
While casinos would permit the wealthy to become even more wealthy, they do little for average people.
I lived in Galveston in my late teen years when gambling was 'overlooked' in our county. Slot machines were everywhere in restaurants, taverns, clubs, bowling alleys, small stores, barber shops and service stations. Casino type gambling existed and table games were offered in the many clubs on the island.
The openness of the gambling allowed many, many small business people to profit. In many instances the slots paid the rent. My point is that average business people benefitted, and I do not see that as true with casino licenses going only to a few already rich corporations.
If gambling is permitted, then anybody who can buy a slot machine should have the privilege of licensing it reasonabley and operating it wherever he can find a place to exhibit it. The slot machine licenses should be on a shall issue basis like the concealed carry permits we enjoy.
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