Originally Posted By: blackmouth
Originally Posted By: Met'lheadMatt
It's a case of the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Tribal slots are a 600 mil monster in washington annually, with revenue like that ontop of the other gaming. We have created deep pocket beasts.
The only way to bring equality to the table is using those slots as a nego tool. At the present time they have exclusive rights to them and the cash cow they create, but if the State would let every bowling ally, hotel, restraunte ect have them, or the threat of..... It may shed a different light in thier eyes. But allowing them the gaming monoply, to financially support there cause, they will eventually go after everything else.


You don't really think that the politicians would kill the goose that lays golden eggs, do you?


The Tribes receive 75% of the gas tax they take in, no audit required on the use of those funds. They also keep all of the liquor tax they receive, and they pay no tax on gambling receipts. Our State government receives no benefits from them at all as it relates to income.
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