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Posted At : May 19, 2009 12:22 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Internet gambling,Taxes,Regulation,Steve Wynn
Americans have voted with their mice and declared repeal of the odious UIGEA a top policy priority. Legalizing online poker outpolled increasing fuel-efficiency standards by nearly 2,000 mouse clicks ... but still finished way behind getting the U.S. out of the torture business. (Amen to that.)
In related news, an American Gaming Association study that's generating a flood of news stories all over "the Google" found that 81% of Americans surveyed thought gambling an acceptable form of entertainment. Seeing how AGA prez Frank J. Fahrenkopf was a soldier in the Reagan Revolution, he might want to share those numbers with some of his fellow Republicans. I doubt it will nudge them back into the mainstream on this issue (they're still too much in thrall to Dr. James Dobson) ... but there's always hope.
Wynn vs. Muth: Though he must have better things to do, Steve Wynn has lowered himself to siccing his legal beagles on conservative watchdog Chuck Muth. The latter assesses Wynn's threat as all bark, no bite.
S&G has no dog in this fight. But anything Muth does has to be read closely, since he doubles as Nevada GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden's ghostwriter (despite having re-registered as an independent to great [self-generated] fanfare). Muth may be the one gnawing at Wynn's ankles but Lowden's probably still got a firm grip on the leash.
Bad news for the R-J: Despite its free-market posturing, the newspaper has long (and quietly) benefited from a state law that requires the publication of property-tax information at public expense. Well, that gravy train is about to run off the rails. Only a Gov. Jim Gibbons veto can keep it on the tracks.
Correction: No, he can't. The bill passed with veto-proof majorities. Other public subsidies of Nevada newspapers, however, remain in place.
In other news ...
A tax is a tax except when Midnight Jim says it isn't. On the other hand, Gibbons hid behind "the will of the people" when raising taxes on hotel rooms (i.e., on you, the tourist) but now decrees Nevada counties can't raise their own taxes -- no matter how much they may want it. So let me get this straight: Nevadans are competent to raise taxes on non-Nevadans who visit here but not on themselves? Yeah, got it.
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