Great, that’s what freedom is all about. If the citizens of OK and LA want to permit gambling then that is their right.
“How will keeping more money in your state have Texas running more deficits pray tell?”
Gambling isn’t productive. All it does is take money that the citizens already have and could spend on more productive things. The state would not gain anymore revenue then it already earns by opening casinos.
They would run more deficits, because when the state runs and manages a business, this costs more money. This money is money that can’t be recouped from productivity because gambling isn’t a productive enterprise.
“Playing a game for money is absolutely NONE of your business.”
You are right. If the state is going to run casinos with my taxpayer dollars, then I do have a say. If people want to run a cash poker game, guess what, that already happens. I can walk down the street to play with a group that meets regularly.
“Your own sense of “morality” is your concern and it is CERTAINLY not appropriate for a state to be legislating a game.”
It is appropriate if it takes the gambling interests and organized crime out of the state, and dumps them in LA and OK. Why would I want those parasites in TX?
“How is anyone playing a game harming you in the slightest?”
How does it benefit the state of TX?
So many opinions and nothing to back it up.
As a Texan and a conservative I’ll spend my money any way I choose but I’m interested in how you think I should spend it.
Who said the state would be owning and managing casino’s?
If you want organized crime out of the state then shut down all these damn prison’s that are popping up all over the state. They do more damage than any casino ever will.