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Old 03-12-2012, 07:13 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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California: the state that micromanages your life to death, but ensures bread and circuses for the masses.

The state's Indian casinos are magnets of crime, despair, and socio-economic ruin. Why do we allow this?
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Old 03-12-2012, 07:15 PM
 
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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'Cause it's not up to "us"?
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Old 03-12-2012, 07:45 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Start with the state lottery.
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Old 03-12-2012, 08:29 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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Start with the state lottery.
Please.

The lottery is a tax on people who cannot do math.
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Old 03-12-2012, 09:25 PM
 
Location: Coachella Valley, California
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Or as I like to say ...... a voluntary tax on imbeciles.
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Old 03-12-2012, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Fulleton CA
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Gamblers, addicted ones, will gamble on anything. Having a casino 1/2 hour or 4 hours away isn't going to change that. Why ruin the fun for those of us who can handle it, by those who can't? Liquor and cigarettes are FAR worse for the health but you don't see those banned? They just tax them "to death". We have far bigger problems to deal with than casinos.
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Old 03-12-2012, 10:04 PM
 
Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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The lotto and Casinos are chump change compared to the amounts gambled in the equity markets by the average Joe.... Of course the benefactor is wall street and not some Indians, the state, etc so.....
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Old 03-12-2012, 10:31 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Gamblers, addicted ones, will gamble on anything. Having a casino 1/2 hour or 4 hours away isn't going to change that. Why ruin the fun for those of us who can handle it, by those who can't? Liquor and cigarettes are FAR worse for the health but you don't see those banned? They just tax them "to death". We have far bigger problems to deal with than casinos.
^This

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The lotto and Casinos are chump change compared to the amounts gambled in the equity markets by the average Joe.... Of course the benefactor is wall street and not some Indians, the state, etc so.....
^and this.
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Old 03-12-2012, 11:03 PM
 
Location: Police State
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Don't the Indians have a right to a counterattack?

Red Man's Greed (Season 7, Episode 7) - Full Episode Player - South Park Studios
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Old 03-13-2012, 12:19 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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Start with the state lottery.
With pleasure.

Unfortunately it looks like the state's gambling bosses are in a mood to expand:

California to explore online sales of lottery tickets

"Officials at the California State Lottery said they will explore selling tickets over the Internet after the Justice Department determined that such sales would not violate federal law. 'It does open up a major potential channel for lottery sales in California, but right now it's just a potential channel,' Robert O'Neill, who was named last week to head the state lottery, said Tuesday."

Major potential there, eh Mr. O'Neill? When government goes from protector to predator, we've got problems.
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