The DMN reports that there's a lottery bill we haven't seen yet. This one proposes that buying lottery tickets be easier than ordering online porn over the Internet. Rep. Uresti (D-San Antonio) is a supporter of the bill. Yo, Carlos...did you not listen to us or your party chair back in March?
Citing a decade-and-a-half of broken promises by legislative leaders that a state lottery would pay for public schools, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Charles Soechting today announced that he will ask the state party's executive committee to pass a resolution opposing the expansion of gambling in Texas.You know what really burns our ass? Unfortunately, no...not a flame three feet high...it's when we have to agree with a Republican before we've even gotten over our hangover from how they drove us to drink yesterday. Thanks, Uresti. Attaway to go, son...attaway to go.
Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Denton, said Internet sales are a bad idea because kids could buy lottery tickets. Ms. Crownover also saideasier access could fuel gambling addiction.
This is just a bad idea all the way around. Not because it could hurt the children, as Crownover suggests. We love how Republicans are great defenders of children in their statements to the press, but when it comes to enacting legislation for public education or child protective services they beat them with baseball bats...but we digress...
We'll just leave it with this. The Internet is for porn and email. Ok, if you force our hand sometimes we read some sort of news shit. Beats getting newsprint on our hands or accidently having to watch Fox News sometime. But that's it.
The lottery is not a jackpot, gambling is not the end-all, be-all answer to fiscal woes. Finding a new way to suck the money out of the pockets of the poor with Internet lottery solutions is bad policy.
Boo Uresti.
Why aren't we looking at the existing pari-mutuels as a way to provide the revenue streams that we need?
Professional Jai-alai wants to join the slate of dog and horse racing, and bring a new sports and entertainment venue to Texas. When they erect their 3 proposed facilities in Texas, they alone will generate the $1 billion that the VLTs say they will bring to the state coffers.
The dog and horse facilities never fulfilled the promises of revenue streams to Texas and even lobbied to reduce their share payable to Texas. Texas Jai-alai will be offering a higher percentage to the State of Texas than the dogs and horses.
If we use the the tools that we already have in place, in lieu of reinventing the wheel with on-line scratch off tickets and slot machines, we can avoid spending the millions of dollars that will be required to put in place, these short sighted programs!
See their web site: www.texasjai-alai.com
Hey Alf, I guess your cares and social concerns have waned since you ran against FDR back in the day and kicked the bucket in '87.
Actually, it's not poor people this will regressively effect: It's middle class people on their way down the socioeconomic ladder to being poor. Most "poor" people in Texas and elsewhere don't have internet access ergo they aren't going to be the ones most affected by this piece of legislation.
There is a technically accurate description for what this is, though: Predatory. Whether you're an asshole conservative or a screaming liberal, this policy is exactly that: Predatory. It's the state of Texas seeking to profit off of peoples' addictions.
Why not just cut to the chase and have the state take over and operate all the XXX theaters in Texas?
Two letters, four numerals: H.B. 3540. Check out the Internet lottery gambling.
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Those mean Republicans...forcing "the poor" to buy lottery tickets at gunpoint.