Sin Taxes

A comparison of tax revenues collected from sinners engaged in sinning within each State:



Congratulations Pennsylvania !

So you'd think that PA is flush with cash, right?

"Based on current policy, Pennsylvania will be facing a $2.4 billion budget shortfall by the 2016-17 budget year."

https://watchdog.org/256477/pennsylvania-budget-bad-to-worse/

More money just means more spending by these clueless politicians. The state pension fund is in trouble:

"At a combined $63.2 billion in debt, the two funds threaten to sink Pennsylvania’s finances, according to a new policy memo authored by CF senior fellow Richard Dreyfuss."

https://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/policyblog/detail/pennsylvanias-pension-funds-still-on-a-collision-course

Perhaps the residents of The Keystone State need to step up their sinning ! ! !

For the record, little infant DonDiego was born in Bethlehem, just like Baby Jesus.

Proud PA'er here.

I’m guessing it was at that point that the resemblance ended?

And in DonDiego's locale, I bet they couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

The star of Bethlehem that DD was born under was just one of Carnegie's hot coker furnaces lighting up the sky.

Growing up, . . . to the limited extent to which poor little DonDiego did grow up, . . . he could see those coke ovens from the upstairs window of his home.
Poor young DonDiego worked in the Blast Furnace Division of the Bethlehem Steel Plant to pay for his college.

Now pretty much the entire industrial complex is gone, 'cept for a few buildings and structures like the ore bridge 'cross from the Sands Bethlehem Casino:



The City Fathers was a'plannin to make a B-I-I-I-I-G industrial museum to attract visitors and such. So's they left some of the buildings and things-like-that-there a'standin' so's they could, . . . umm, . . . "repurpose" them to hold all them there museum exhibits.
But nobody could then, or can today, come up with the money, so everythings jes' a rustin' away:

Iron Foundry - Where DonDiego's Dad worked 40+ years


Blast Furnaces - Where young DonDiego worked Summers


The Bethlehem Steel (un-repurposed)

DonDiego, Oklahoma should show some revenue from casino's we have over 100 now. A quick search brought up this Tibal Gaming

Another article stated

"In fiscal 2014, the state received about $123 million in exclusivity fees, which are based on revenue from Class III electronic machines and nonhouse-banked card games, according to the report from the gambling compliance unit of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. That represented a 4.3 percent drop over 2013. It was the first year-over-year decline since the state began collecting fees in 2006."

2014

Are lottery taxes included in those stats on the map?