The breeders aren't big political contributors.
The $4B used to go to the Gov't, the tracks, and the breeders.
Now it doesn't go to the breeders.
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Am I the only one who thinks that it is absolutely immoral and repugnant that any government uses gambling as a source of revenue?
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"Am I the only one who thinks that it is absolutely immoral and repugnant that any government uses gambling as a source of revenue?"
Nope...especially when the revenues are not used to help problem gamblers, at least here in AB.
Are you under the impression that government that steals your money (at implied gun point and threat of prison )to fund their pet projects, mishandles, loses billions of dollars, wipes out computer information, turned a have province into a have not, and enriches their cronies is capable of being anything but repugnant?
Why should the tracks and breeders get any of the slots revenue? They didn't earn it.
And gambling should be legal. But the government shouldn't be running it. They are far too inefficient. Let the private sector do it and tax the revenues.
You're right...what was I thinking?
And these emails will be declared "irretrievably missing" by the Ontario government in 5 ..... 4 ..... 3 .....
Next, it will be 6 billion and none will go to the tracks either.
Gord - private organizations do run it. How the money is divided in BC:
https://www.gaming.gov.bc.ca/revenue/#two
Ask yourself who actually "earned it" on the list that got money.
I'm not sure that's quite the case in ontario and other provinces.
Alberta:
http://www.aglc.gov.ab.ca/gaming/default.asp
Ontario (I think they refer to private as contract managed):
http://www.olg.ca/about/index.jsp?lang=en
"Am I the only one who thinks that it is absolutely immoral and repugnant that any government uses gambling as a source of revenue?"
I suppose it could be. But it is no different than being forced to pay some of the taxes to a wasteful government.
On the other hand anyone stupid enough to think they have a system that will give then easy booty deserves to loose or loose it all.
Yes it is Gord,
The race tracks are private. The horses are the entertainment that brings in the clients. the slots are in private buildings. Of course OLG eeds to pay, they are not government owned casinos. ( thak goodness for small mercies)
"The horses are the entertainment that brings in the clients."
The horses are the premier gambling event.
Back in the '80s, when casinos were first opened in Calgary, I used to drop in twice a month and play blackjack. I would limit myself to $20 and if I lost it I left. Mostly it took a couple of hours to lose it, sometimes I left with a couple hundred. I only played about twice a month but there were lotsa regular gamblers there who were better at blackjack and they were always there. When those guys got $200 or so, they went straight to Stampede Park to bet it on the ponies.
Blackjack was how they got their "seed" money.
The slots are how they get the last dollar out of the ones who lose betting on the ponies.
please release my earlier comment from filter purgatory.
I saved it and reviewed it and there is not a single word that could possibly have choked the filter that I can see.
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In the CFL, NBA, MLB, NFL, etc - this would be the equivalent of free athletes.
Shit ... NHL also.
Since 1998,Ontario had developed a world class "Standardbred Horsebreeding" Yearling Sales Market inconjunction with the RACETRACKS Where OLG was involved in the wagering aspect of the sport.
The Peterson / Wynne Liberals have neutered and eviscerated that WORLD CLASS MARKET as well as effectively killing off many thousands of jobs, mom & pop stables and legitimate tax earning dollars in the process while siphoning off OLG wagered cash into Provincial coffers, without benefitting the horse owners, trainers, etc.
ONLY the OLG racetracks seemed to have benefitted.
Governing bastards, they need the judicial inquiry just announced.
"Am I the only one who thinks that it is absolutely immoral and repugnant that any government uses gambling as a source of revenue?"
Gambling is a tax on stupidity. And if you have to tax something...
The government monopolizes gambling, liquor, tobacco, and soon, pot.
If the legalize prostitution, look forward to government brothels.
Vices are big bucks, it's only natural that the biggest thugs would use racketeering, extortion and fraud to monopolize them.
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almost a decade after belleville city council closed down the local fairgrounds and racetrack and spent millions of dollars extending services to a parcel of land on the city's fringe for a casino... the land sits empty.
the property has been flipped a half dozen times and nobody knows who owns it.
the former mayor who got the ball rolling owned a property management company.
coincidence, i'm sure.
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