NO to Senate Bill 1739!!! Hey Illinoisans! Want your legislator to vote in a bill that would exponentially expand corruption and a big black hole of your taxpayer money to Chicago without any oversight? ME NEITHER! Cal your legislator and tell them NO!!! NO!! NO!!!!!!!!!!! Gambling is nothing more than a tax on the poor, which we already have enough of here in Illinois!!! The Chicago Mega-Casino and Illinois Gambling Expansion Bill --Would authorize borrowing of up to $900 million to build Rahm one of the worlds largest casinos on the Chicago riverfront. Risk of debt spread to all Illinois taxpayers. Most of the benefits goes to Chicago. We have seen this before. Chicago always wins, and the rest of the state always pays. --Creates the Chicago Casino Development Authority thatwould have eminent domain, condemnation, and unlimited bonding powers --Allows 5 new casinos to be built in Illinois, cannibalizing the market already existing for the ten previously approved. and the video gambling already enacted --Allows each of the states six horse tracks to become racinos with electronic gambling allowed. However, the bill sells these six racino licenses for a COMBINED total of under $150 million. ONE racino license in Indiana sold for $250 million. --Illinois Chamber of Commerce opposes this bill. See their reasons here: illinoisprosperity.org/issue_alert.asp?g=illinois&issue=Bad_Bet_for_Illinois&parent=ILLINOIS More arguments and information at responsiblegamingcoalition.org
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:00:06 +0000
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