Possum soup is is the soup of the day. Would you like a menu or will you be eating at the bar?
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
And while there at it, they could probably make an even bigger profit by selling cocaine. Have they consider that as an option for tax relief?
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Ah, I see your state has discovered the stupid tax. We have it in Florida, too. Pays for a lot of stuff.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Rabbit, we do not sell cocaine. Instead, we have countless crystal meth labs hidden in the hills of PA. Wal-Mart actually has to limit the sale of some of the supplies that meth labs use (coffee filters, cold medicine etc...) and have stopped selling these items in large quantities after dark.
Anyway, the only way gambling is going to pay my property taxes is if I hit "7,7,7" on a slot machine.
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
I would love it if all government revenue was from cocaine rather than taxes. No one forces you to gamble (or take drugs), and if you ruin your life it is your own damn fault. Less taxes are a good thing.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
And this is the point at which this thread officially died.
Posted by Mean Old Frisco (Member # 6666) on :
Gambling: A tax for people who are bad at math.
I love it. A fool and his money are soon parted.
I'll let stupid people pay my taxes any day. Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
What else is there to say? No one is going to argue that gambling is a wise use of money. Either you believe it is ok to waste money, or you do not. As with all vices, you cannot get rid of it, you can only decide whether it is the government or the black market who receives the profits.
The KY lottery has been running ads that says everyone wins when you play it, because apparently they give the money to education. We still have taxes, so obviously we are not winning enough.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
I don't see the comparison between drug use and gambling. And if you do want to make a connection, then you have to include eating too much, drinking caffeine, staying up late, etc...all things that can potentially be harmful if done in an overabundence. Explain to me why it is a bad idea to put slot machines up and use the profits as a tax break. And explain why this conjures up comparisons to selling drugs and using that money as a tax break.
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Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
"Explain to me why it is a bad idea to put slot machines up and use the prophets as a tax break."
*giggles* Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
heh...I always thought gambling and religion were intertwined somehow. it comes out sometimes when i write.
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
They are analogous because both are actions that are widely regarded as harmful and immoral. Furthermore, an "addiction" paradigm has been used to describe compulsive gambling. All the actions you listed also work as comparisons, but not as well because less people believe they are wrong and/or see the harm.
I am guessing here, but the bad idea might be that the state is supporting something one believes to be immoral. Same as government funded abortions.
Posted by Jalapenoman (Member # 6575) on :
quote: Possum soup is is the soup of the day. Would you like a menu or will you be eating at the bar?
Only a philistine would eat possum at a bar!
As far as the gambling goes, New Mexico begin allowing Indian Casino Gambling, the lottery, and racetrack gambling several years ago. They said that a certain portion would be earmarked for education and would increase the dollars in education and all of our test scores. A year or two later, they reduced the state education budget for education by the same amount of money it was receiving from the lottery and gambling. Education did not improve or profit from it at all. I know that Texas has done exactly the same thing and suspect that it happens this way in most states.
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
I wish it to be known that I am embarassed on behalf of my home state.
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Pays for a lot of stuff.
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