Alabama's dilemma: choosing between gambling or taxes to plug budget deficit

[barryqwalsh]

The debate in the conservative state over asking voters to approve casinos and a lottery as an alternative to raising taxes is producing some unlikely bedfellows

Max Blau
Sunday 24 May 2015
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Del Marsh doesn’t consider himself a betting man. Yet the longtime Republican official representing Anniston, Alabama, has placed his chips on a solution to fix the state’s several-hundred-million-dollar budget shortfall that’s reignited the longstanding debate over a controversial topic in this conservative state: gambling.

Past efforts to loosen Alabama’s gaming restrictions have largely fallen on closed ears. But the times could be changing. A new proposal to legalize traditional casinos and establish a lottery, two forms of gambling that have traditionally encountered backlash in the heart of the Bible belt, has surfaced at the behest of conservative lawmakers.


Alabama s dilemma choosing between gambling or taxes to plug budget deficit US news The Guardian

 

[TheOldSchool]

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jesus will save them.

 

[occupied]

Shithole will probably vote it down again, and cut taxes.

 

[TheOldSchool]

 

[Flopper]

The debate in the conservative state over asking voters to approve casinos and a lottery as an alternative to raising taxes is producing some unlikely bedfellows

Max Blau
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Del Marsh doesn’t consider himself a betting man. Yet the longtime Republican official representing Anniston, Alabama, has placed his chips on a solution to fix the state’s several-hundred-million-dollar budget shortfall that’s reignited the longstanding debate over a controversial topic in this conservative state: gambling.

Past efforts to loosen Alabama’s gaming restrictions have largely fallen on closed ears. But the times could be changing. A new proposal to legalize traditional casinos and establish a lottery, two forms of gambling that have traditionally encountered backlash in the heart of the Bible belt, has surfaced at the behest of conservative lawmakers.


Alabama s dilemma choosing between gambling or taxes to plug budget deficit US news The Guardian

Legalizing gambling has pros and cons. The National Gambling Impact Commission found that 80 percent of gambling revenue comes from households with incomes of less than $50,000 a year. On the positive side legalized gambling provides states with badly needed revenues. If you thinks it's ok for the state to draw a larger portion of it's revenue from the poor, then gambling is way to go.

 

[Mr. H.]

Damned if ya do, and damned if ya don't...

 

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The debate in the conservative state over asking voters to approve casinos and a lottery as an alternative to raising taxes is producing some unlikely bedfellows

Max Blau
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Del Marsh doesn’t consider himself a betting man. Yet the longtime Republican official representing Anniston, Alabama, has placed his chips on a solution to fix the state’s several-hundred-million-dollar budget shortfall that’s reignited the longstanding debate over a controversial topic in this conservative state: gambling.

Past efforts to loosen Alabama’s gaming restrictions have largely fallen on closed ears. But the times could be changing. A new proposal to legalize traditional casinos and establish a lottery, two forms of gambling that have traditionally encountered backlash in the heart of the Bible belt, has surfaced at the behest of conservative lawmakers.


Alabama s dilemma choosing between gambling or taxes to plug budget deficit US news The Guardian

Legalizing gambling has pros and cons. The National Gambling Impact Commission found that 80 percent of gambling revenue comes from households with incomes of less than $50,000 a year. On the positive side legalized gambling provides states with badly needed revenues. If you thinks it's ok for the state to draw a larger portion of it's revenue from the poor, then gambling is way to go.

They already missed the boat, Mississippi has had gambling for years and has always funded the Anti-gambling lobby in Alabama. Their former governor Don Siegelman was politically destroyed and put in jail by the unholy trinity of Miss. gambling, the state GOP and Karl fucking Rove. That's how dirty the Anti-Gambling lobby is in Alabama.

 

[barryqwalsh]

Alabama should look at the UK 's National Lottery. It is the most successful lottery in the world, and the vast majority of the British people trust their national lottery. The state government should get in touch with the UK 's National Lottery Commission and pick their brains.

The National Lottery Commission

The Commission’s duties are to ensure that players are treated fairly; the nation’s interest in the Lottery is protected; and the operator is motivated to maximise the enjoyment and benefits that the Lottery brings to the Nation. It also runs the competition to select the commercial operator of the Lottery, currently Camelot Group plc.

 

[Flopper]

The debate in the conservative state over asking voters to approve casinos and a lottery as an alternative to raising taxes is producing some unlikely bedfellows

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Sunday 24 May 2015
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Del Marsh doesn’t consider himself a betting man. Yet the longtime Republican official representing Anniston, Alabama, has placed his chips on a solution to fix the state’s several-hundred-million-dollar budget shortfall that’s reignited the longstanding debate over a controversial topic in this conservative state: gambling.

Past efforts to loosen Alabama’s gaming restrictions have largely fallen on closed ears. But the times could be changing. A new proposal to legalize traditional casinos and establish a lottery, two forms of gambling that have traditionally encountered backlash in the heart of the Bible belt, has surfaced at the behest of conservative lawmakers.


Alabama s dilemma choosing between gambling or taxes to plug budget deficit US news The Guardian

Legalizing gambling has pros and cons. The National Gambling Impact Commission found that 80 percent of gambling revenue comes from households with incomes of less than $50,000 a year. On the positive side legalized gambling provides states with badly needed revenues. If you thinks it's ok for the state to draw a larger portion of it's revenue from the poor, then gambling is way to go.

They already missed the boat, Mississippi has had gambling for years and has always funded the Anti-gambling lobby in Alabama. Their former governor Don Siegelman was politically destroyed and put in jail by the unholy trinity of Miss. gambling, the state GOP and Karl fucking Rove. That's how dirty the Anti-Gambling lobby is in Alabama.

Alabama can draw from Florida and Georgia but they are bit late. Mississippi has the Gulf Coast.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Il passed gambling, it was a boon, and yet they are going under.

idiots are given a cash cow and can still fuck it up.

aside from that, people should be allowed to gamble