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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (89890)	2/25/2001 10:06:45 AM
From: Kapusta Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Sir Knight, from Nikkei Net: With financial pressures, from slumping tax revenues to skyrocketing public service costs and public debt, growing at all levels of government, policymakers are under pressure to get involved in a controversial but lucrative activity to fill their dwindling coffers - gambling. It's about time they got with the program<g>. American pols have long known that citizens will scream to the heavens about taxes, but will feed the lotteries with their last dollar.