No on 3

As I indicated in my earlier post on Issue 3, I couldn't care less if we have gambling but I would vote for a good casino bill; something we can't seem to get in the state of Ohio.

Instead of a good casino bill, we keep getting legalized gambling cartel bills.

Not only has the land for these casinos already been recognized but the owners as well. The legislation provides for Penn Gaming and Dan Gilbert to buy gaming license(s) for below what the market value should be.

The way these issues should read is this. The state of Ohio will put up for bid/auction (pick your number) licenses. That will assure the state gets the most money out of these licenses and that the market dictates the value of said licenses and that the market will dictate where these licenses go.

The jobs and tax issues are a canard. Ask yourself this question. You have $500 in discretionary income for entertainment purposes that you would spend in a casino; where are you spending that money today? Football games? The race track? Those jobs will simply be reallocated to casino jobs. It's a push at best.

In my mind, all we're doing is flopping money from one form of entertainment to another.

Besides if gambling is so great for an economy, why is Detroit still a shit hole?

Now there is the case to make that gamblers are taking their money out of state but ask yourself this question. If you live in Marietta, will you be driving to Cincinnati, Toledo, Columbus, Cleveland or West Virginia to gamble?

This legislation does nothing to address that money flight.

In addition, four different people in Cincinnati who gamble have told me flat out that even if Cincinnati gets a casino they'll still head to Indiana. Why? Because they allow smoking. Again, nothing in this law changes that.

It bothers me to no end to hear Gov. Ted cry about the reduced gaming license fees.

Hey Ted, we're going to get gambling in this state eventually, why haven't you and your douche bags in Columbus put together a good gaming bill together instead of sitting on your hands whining about this bill? By the way, what the hell have you actually done in your three years in Columbus? In my mind, your only telling achievement is state run Keno.

So once again, we get the choice of bad law v no law.

I'll go with no law for the time being.