State shouldn’t fatten a multi-billion-dollar gaming industry that leaves a wake of family financial devastation.
The last thing California needs is more gambling.
But voters will be asked this fall to expand the ways people can part with their earnings, further fattening a rapidly growing,that often leaves behind a wake of family financial devastation involving tens of thousands of dollars of debt. Voters should also oppose Proposition 27, which would allow tribes to join with large, established, out-of-state internet gambling companies to provide online wagering on sporting events — andThe measures are gussied up with promises that some of the revenues would go, depending on the proposition, to the state general fund, gambling-addiction programs, homeless programs and schools. Don’t be fooled.
It’s all about greed. California’s tribes have split their support between the two measures depending on which one they expect would provide the biggest payoff. Horserace tracks are similarly trying to fatten their profits while cardrooms are trying to protect theirs.
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