BUDGET FIX? Gambling payoff could be delayed
This is a budget set up to fail. More budget cuts will happen. Gambling is never a fix, pretty soon we'll be using tax money for gambling addiction programs.
Gambling is a vice and Ted Strickland does not deserve to be our Governor. He was voted into office with him stating over and over that he was against gambling. This guy has no real core values. He says one thing and does another.
From Pennsylvania's experience, it will take much longer than Strickland states to get slot machines up and running....and dumping their ill-gotten gains into the state's coffers.
"Just as anti-gambling groups held up Rendell's proposal by suing, the conservative Ohio Roundtable is vowing to go to court to block Strickland's plan.
The group believes slot machines fall outside the scope of the constitutional amendment authorizing the state lottery 36 years ago.
"We feel (Strickland) is going outside his realm of authority," said Rob Walgate, Roundtable vice president. "We don't think the voters in 1973 voted to authorize slot machines at racetracks." "
Walgate is correct. Who really believes that the voters that authorized the lottery were actually authorizing converting horse racing facilities into casinos? That logic is a huge, unsupported leap!
What's next when this budget does not cover all that it promises? Where's the contingency plan when this budget falls short?
The next time libraries post signs in their windows protesting budget cuts; is Ted Strickland going to legalize prostitution under the authority of the lottery?
This is a budget set up to fail. More budget cuts will happen. Gambling is never a fix, pretty soon we'll be using tax money for gambling addiction programs.
Gambling is a vice and Ted Strickland does not deserve to be our Governor. He was voted into office with him stating over and over that he was against gambling. This guy has no real core values. He says one thing and does another.
From Pennsylvania's experience, it will take much longer than Strickland states to get slot machines up and running....and dumping their ill-gotten gains into the state's coffers.
"Just as anti-gambling groups held up Rendell's proposal by suing, the conservative Ohio Roundtable is vowing to go to court to block Strickland's plan.
The group believes slot machines fall outside the scope of the constitutional amendment authorizing the state lottery 36 years ago.
"We feel (Strickland) is going outside his realm of authority," said Rob Walgate, Roundtable vice president. "We don't think the voters in 1973 voted to authorize slot machines at racetracks." "
Walgate is correct. Who really believes that the voters that authorized the lottery were actually authorizing converting horse racing facilities into casinos? That logic is a huge, unsupported leap!
What's next when this budget does not cover all that it promises? Where's the contingency plan when this budget falls short?
The next time libraries post signs in their windows protesting budget cuts; is Ted Strickland going to legalize prostitution under the authority of the lottery?
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