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Gambling
Bills
by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
February 9, 2006
Gambling is all about betting of money or valuables on,
and often participation in, games of chance involving
some degree of skills.
Gambling did not constitute a
common law crime when conducted privately in countries
like England and United States. Whereas as on the other
hand in colonial America gambling is liable to rankle
public opinion because it was often associated with
rowdy activities and it produced debtors who would
burden society. In countries like united States even
though gambling have been allowed by the government
still they had some control over the public wagers and
the minors. Also they allowed wagering up to certain
limit only. Though all of these state-sanctioned forms
may conflict with public opinion on the moral and
economic worth of gambling, all provide state and local
governments with large revenues.
Legislations regarding gambling
The push to generate new state gambling revenues
appeared over the year after a Senate committee. The
senate taxes committee however did approve a plan
calling for the governor to discuss an off-reservation
casino with any of the state’s 11 Indian communities
that express an interest. Red lake and the white earth
are the two tribes that have been seeking a partnership
with the state to open a casino in the Twin Cities.
United States lawmakers modified a bill aimed at choking
off payments to offshore Web casinos that take in some
money annually, creating competing drafts that could
divide support.
Rejection of the bill
Topeka- Senators
rejected a bill Friday night to expand gambling, despite
facing a Kansas Supreme court order to increase spending
on public schools and looming financial problems. Other
gambling proposals could surface later. However Senate
leaders who’d backed the bill immediately announced that
the ways and means committee would begin Saturday to
consider trimming spending from the budget legislators
already have approved for the fiscal year. Supporters
had hoped the promise of new revenue for education and
to forestall budget problems would reverse years of
frustration. They also argued the measure would allow
the state to attract tourists and recapture revenue from
Kansas who already travels to Missouri or Oklahoma to
gamble. Gambling is a crowd of gaming supporters packed
a Statehouse auditorium anyway, even though the
gambling bills
before the Consumer Protection Committee were only
supposed to deal with the extension of simulcasts at the
tracks and matters affecting the state lottery.
Pacheco’s legislation would have allowed slot machines
at Suffolk Downs and Wonderland in the Boston area.
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