When is gambling not gambling?
Or when is a slot machine not a slot machine?
When it's a "sweepstakes" machine of the sort that's proliferating in Ohio. The cat is out of the bag on gambling. Inventors are always going to be coming up with new wrinkles to step around state law. Note this for the future.
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Chip, chip, chipping away.
Nose of the camel under the tent.
etc.
Classic case in point was Mississippi "Boat" casinos.
At first to keep the locals from blowing all their money the casinos had to shove off and cruise for 4 hours.
Then after a Mississippi flood they let them not cruise, then they let them build their own lagoon, then they let them build a pipe to the river to a pond.
Then after Katrina they let them move inland and to hell with the shoving off and cruising.
Mississippi had gotten hooked to the tax money and to heck with the limits Mississippi had instigated to protect the vulnerable.
Personally I like the wide open much better.
It is only a short matter of time before AR has full blown casinos and slots in every convenience store selling lotto.
It is inevitable.
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November 17, 2009 09:43 AM
Perhaps, but I hope not.
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November 17, 2009 01:05 PM