Say WHAT!!!!
Now you may wonder what in the world I'm pissed off about now but The state just did it do you again and most of you didn't even notice! Yep, they reached into your pockets, withdrew some money and didn't even say thanks.
What happened is this.
The state just settled on a lawsuit for $1.6 Million dollars. (there are more to be settled yet so it doesn't end here) Now that may be chump change for some, but that makes no difference for this topic. The settlement was to a firm who supplied some of those lovely TouchPlay machines around the state. The funny thing is this settlement was to a guy who also owned a large gas retail business, so the net is he was paid to install machines in his own shops.
I have no issue with this firm as it was a sound business practice. The state was getting into the business and they looked to someone who had the financial backing to take it on.
I didn't really like seeing Touchplay/slots at gas stations but then again, this great state has rolled over and prostituted itself to the gambling world.
Now back to your pockets and my topic. . As stated in the state paper, a “Dr. Stanek withheld signing off on this settlement until and I quote, “Declined to sign the settlement agreement until he was guaranteed that no lottery money would be used toward the monetary settlement.”
I set my cup of coffee down right then, cause I knew I would be shaking my head and shaken my head and thinking “SAY WHAT!”
It was later stated that the settlement money would come out of the general fund and not any lottery monies. Now that sounds to me like a tax increase right, cause they took monies from Peter to pay Paul.
Now some of you will state that it was not an increase, but think of it this way.
If you have to pay a penalty for something that was bringing in money and you are using tax dollars, then it is squandering money, thus a tax increase.
The payment needs to come from the lottery funds or am I wrong on this!
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