The House effectively killed the Indian Casino bill last week and I have to say I'm relieved. I'm not in favor of racetracks, casinos and poker machines at the 7-11. It's trashy. Leave that crap for Vegas.
I went to a meeting in Council Bluffs, Iowa where they allow gambling on the river and we stayed at the 'casino' there. You have never seen the likes of suicide inducing reality! The old and infirm with their wheelchairs and oxygen, the morbidly obese, and the chain-smoking poor people were too much and I cut my meeting short and came back home.
Casino gambling is always the go-to answer to make a quick buck and raise money for something, but it's one of the worse ideas ever proposed. I'd rather have nothing but toll roads and state income taxes than a casino by Town Lake.
(I misspelled the word casino every time I typed this post this morning. I think I caught myself, but if anyone knows what a cassion is and why I'm apparently obsessed with it, let me know!)
Lets just get a state income tax. I'm getting tired of listening to the California migrants bitch about our property taxes.
I'm just tired of the California migrants.
I like how Rep. will Hartnett called the tribes "criminals" for daring to try to raise money to alleviate crushing poverty on the pitiful handful of scraps of land the Great White Father has mercifully allowed them to keep.
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No doubt, casinos are lazy legislator's answer to bring in more money for problems they can't solve themselves. Anybody that doesn't believe that they exist to feed off the local poor has never been to Shreveport. Casinos are a horrible idea and I've been told also increase the crime rate in states and communites in which they exist. I'm with PD, if you want to gamble go to Vegas, if you can' t afford to go to Vegas, then you shouldn't be gambling.