Today’s plan is a jaunt into Las Vegas. The sun’s is out, the wind seems to have settled, and it’s a perfect day to do outside projects but instead I’ve opted to head into Las Vegas and get my Riot Fix and spend some time in a card room with Marie – or just doing lunch if we don’t feel like sitting at the green felt. How’s that for a super exciting way to spend a few hours in one of the hot spots of the world?
I’m finishing off my coffee and it’s out the door. While I do, I want to point out an article about the Kentucky Governor’s attempt to do a completely off the wall takeover of a number of poker domains. We’ve followed this case closely at PokerWorks, mainly because I can’t believe any person feels they have the right to just take something owned by someone else to satisfy their own greed (yah, get a gun, boys, and meet me at the local, corner liquor store) and they believe that living in the US and being involved in government is open ground for stealing and badgering the citizens into compliance. One of Beshear’s complaints is that the citizens of Kentucky are gambling somewhere else and it should be go into Kentucky’s coffers, spent on horse racing and other forms of gaming approved in Kentucky. It’s OK to gamble, just do it where we tell you or we’ll take your toys!
Scratch your freedom of choice Kentucky residents. Perhaps you will have to have a metal chip surgically implanted in your ass and if you leave the state to go to another state that has legalized gaming, you may be forced to pay a tax or punished by a jail sentence for spending your hard earned money in another state on gaming instead of the great state of Kentucky.
Not being able to accept the recent decision of the Kentucky State of Appeals, the case is going higher. More tax dollars at work. If I lived in Kentucky, I’d be moving out or sitting at the governor’s office everyday in protest. There are so many things that need work in our country and there is never enough funding to begin to take care of all of it, yet the greedy assed lawyers and the idiocy of the governor is making sure that they are taking care of their residents. Let’s hear it for freedom and democracy!
Sorry but I disagree. The money from gambling would help to REDUCE taxes and contribute to positive change state government projects just like the proposition in Maryland where the money would go into the education system. If gambling is to be legal, there’s no reason for the money made from it not to go to a place where the money will (hopefully) be utilized in a positive way.
My point exactly. but the state of Kentucky is having a fit because people are electing to play online poker and not spend it on horse racing. All forms of gambling are not created equal. And the government should stop spending tax $ to try and stop internet poker, they SHOULD start spending time and brain power thinking to set up the US to handle and regulate internet poker and glean tax $ from it to help the US.