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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (694589)1/22/2013 12:12:53 AM
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>> Or gambling in Arkansas. For years, we can't have gambling casinos but we can have gambling at the dog track and the horse track. Well, the politicians finally got on the same page, they agreed to allow the dog track and the horse track to open their own casinos. No one else though!

And then they slammed the doors shut, effectively preventing competition. Now, you have Oaklawn packed with the poorest people in town playing slot games that return 90-95% (vs. 98-99% in ordinary casinos) as a result of no competition. Pathetic.

So the question is why should government have the right to say these two operators can open casinos but Harrahs can't? If the operators are legitimate then I can't really see why government ought to be in the way. Of course, last year, they threw out two additional operators' petitions on technicalities -- after Oaklawn and Southland dumped money into fighting them.

Seems to me freedom in this country becomes a more distant thing as the days go by. And both political parties are at fault imo.
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