SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE Editorial: State legislators in Pennsylvania and nationwide increasingly have become addicted to gambling-generated state revenue. There is no cure because, for politicians, gambling is a good deal. It enables them to increase state revenue without increasing income and business tax rates…
In Pennsylvania, gambling proponents originally contended that their intention was simply to keep Pennsylvania money in Pennsylvania, to capture potential state revenue that was being spent in Atlantic City.
There is no doubt, however, that the Pennsylvania industry has created legions of new gamblers and untold numbers of addicts… (more)
