Maryland: Vote For Slots

Published October 27, 2007 in Maryland.

I say yes.

1 Kevin
Oct 27th, 2007 at 8:55 am

There’s a reason slots were kicked out of spots in MD decades ago - and not for religious/social reasons. The created graft, violence and led to a general decline in quality of life where they were.

Those things aren’t going to be any different this go ’round. Additionally… using the lottery as a model - the state has not exactly demonstrated that they know how to use this additional revenue responsibly… let alone doing what they said they were going to do with it in the first place.

Last but not least… why not just raise taxes on everyone within the state… not just a select group?
2 midderpidge
Oct 27th, 2007 at 9:52 am

slOts, oliver, not slUts.
3 OrganicGeorge
Oct 27th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

So what happens in Townsend Md stays in … it just doesn’t have the right ring.
4 jeff in Chicago
Oct 27th, 2007 at 6:15 pm

The reality is that gambling is addictive and costly to communities. It’s not a problem that every gambler has, and maybe since you don’t have (or don’t know someone with) a gambling problem, you support this so-called ‘voluntary tax.’ That would make sense, except that the gambling, er, ‘gaming’ inductry uses huge marketing budgets and other techniques to take advantage of some gamblers. So those gamblers get into huge debts, they lose their families, and aside from those things, cost other taxpayers money. Sorry Oliver, but gambling hurts the communities it locates in.

Oliver Willis