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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Unfortunately, there's the rest of the article to wade through to get there, where the writer displays a willful ignorance for how racing works. My favorite:
Say what now?
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Absolutely. This line below is hilarious!
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The state takes money from gray haired ladies pumping their dead husbands’ pensions into the slots and gives it to cigar-chewing guys escaping their nagging wives by playing the ponies.
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This writer actually thinks the slots money in PA is going to benefit the horse bettors!?
I guess, if you're a writer at Forbes who knows nothing about horse racing, that would be a sound conclusion to make.
However, that is so far from reality it's comical.
Slots money NEVER, in any way, anywhere, does any good for the "cigar-chewing guys escaping their nagging wives by playing the ponies."
Be it Pennsylvania, New York, or anywhere else...not a dime of slots revenue ever goes to the bettor. It's simply welfare money for horsemen, and a huge handout to suit-and-tie wearing folks who work for racetracks.