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What do you want to know about Issue 3? (Casinos)
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chaptal
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Matthew wrote >>
People are going to spend their money the way they want to. At least casinos bring in huge tax revenues for cities and states. They also help tourism, hotels, etc. Having been employed by casinos in Indiana back in the day, I can tell you that the state put a lot of guidelines on the casinos. The casinos were responsbible for funding addiction courses for alcohol, nicotine, and gaming. If they recognized players with gaming addictions they were required by law to remove them, and we removed plenty of people for it. It wasn't just some obscure rule that nobody remembered. In Indiana the IGC had guys watching everything under cover. They drove nice cars, and received great steady paychecks. IGC was an arm of the state patrol, and there was a waiting list a year long for those jobs. The government holds the key to how good or bad casinos will be in Ohio.
As far as lamenting about when they might stop asking the voters. If you are so against it then keep voting against it. Seriously, it is as simple as hitting a little box on a screen. I want them to keep asking for it so that I can keep voting yes. Blast away.Ever been to Wheeling Island? Whatever money that enterprise takes in does not get reinvested in the area 100 yards from it. You have to drive through a slum to get there.
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Bear
The woods
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Matthew wrote >>
As far as lamenting about when they might stop asking the voters. If you are so against it then keep voting against it. Seriously, it is as simple as hitting a little box on a screen. I want them to keep asking for it so that I can keep voting yes. Blast away.I'm envisioning a world ten years from now with casinos in Ohio and a movement afoot to ban them, much like the movement to get rid of payday loan operations, and I suspect at that point you'd be a much less ardent democrat.
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Matthew
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Bear wrote >>
Matthew wrote >>
As far as lamenting about when they might stop asking the voters. If you are so against it then keep voting against it. Seriously, it is as simple as hitting a little box on a screen. I want them to keep asking for it so that I can keep voting yes. Blast away.I'm envisioning a world ten years from now with casinos in Ohio and a movement afoot to ban them, much like the movement to get rid of payday loan operations, and I suspect at that point you'd be a much less ardent democrat.
Well then I may just surprise you.
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Bear
The woods
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Matthew wrote >>
Bear wrote >>
Matthew wrote >>
As far as lamenting about when they might stop asking the voters. If you are so against it then keep voting against it. Seriously, it is as simple as hitting a little box on a screen. I want them to keep asking for it so that I can keep voting yes. Blast away.I'm envisioning a world ten years from now with casinos in Ohio and a movement afoot to ban them, much like the movement to get rid of payday loan operations, and I suspect at that point you'd be a much less ardent democrat.
Well then I may just surprise you.
Excellent.
The prospect would actually bother me a lot less if it were up for a referendum every year, regardless of whether it passed or not, or only (say) once a decade. But as it stands it sounds a lot like the proponents are just going to keep returning it to the polls and hoping for that one fluke 50.1% victory that will be very difficult to undo once it's been passed into law. And that hardly sounds like respecting the will of the people.
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David S Lewis
Columbus, OH
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Matthew wrote >>
Five or ten year re-votes are a great idea. Perhaps that would be the legal loophole necessary to keep casinos good on their promises.That does seem like a good idea, but that creates a political situation that seems easy to exploit and a motivating factor for casino lobbyists to really help out some politicians, unless you mean a public referendum, which would probably just about shut down the operator's interest in building the casinos. No other kind of development is subjected to anything like that, and it would be a weird way for them bet billions of dollars are building the things...although I enjoy the irony in requiring the casinos to take a huge gamble.
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nexttuesday
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I am for casinos, and have voted for them in the past. I even understand that they would want to put it on the ballot again, eventually. But this year, only one year after it just failed? This is just a guess, but I'm pretty sure LESS democrats will be voting in this election, so their chances of passing it are even less than they were last year. I suppose the people who stand to profit from the casinos can afford to spend millions if it will make them tens of millions later, but it really seems like a wasted effort to try this year.
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Brant
Gahanna
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Did you post the answers for this already? Sorry, but I couldn't seem to find the link for them on my own.
ETA: I've been wondering if the GCAC is supporting Issue 3. I figure a casino would increase tourism, which means more people staying in hotels, which increases revenue from the bed tax, which funds the GCAC, which supports local artists and arts orgs.
Other thoughts on this?
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Answers can be found here:
http://www.columbusunderground.com/questions-answered-on-the-ohio-casino-proposal
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