EDITORIAL: Slots, socialism and Annapolis

STOP THIS CRIME VOTE NO TO QUESTION 2 This Constitutional Amendment will GIVE women and minority business a PERMANENT 1.5% of the slots money FOREVER This is UNCONSTITUTIONAL !!!!!!!! Vote no to question 2

Thank goodness some people see through the shams in reasoning about slots! Here is my message from Australia.... "Look at Australia, Canada and NZ...all are now trying to BAN slots..when we realised how much we had been mislead and conned. DO not believe the figures...you only get told the 'good bits'! The 'only 2%' of problem gamblers means 'pathalogical' gamblers. You are being given the wrong figures! to persuade you unfairly. Your government must ask more accurate questions! The REAL damage to families, retailers and kids in school comes from the 'recreational but OVER-SPENDING' gamblers...and they are left unmentioned! THAT group is not ever QUOTED! They over-spend and harm others around them. Your shops will fail including restaurants, hairdressers, shoe shops...ALL of which would employ more people than casinos! Just 1 extra person is employed in a casino for every new $1 million turnover....that is a huge loss to your communities for very little gain! Your taxes will not rise for LACK of slots...that is a furphy! They will rise BECAUSE of them in the end! Costs outweigh advantages! Harms are HUGE from indirect costs and your kids will have increased school-room trouble from upset, anxious, over-tired children of over-spending gambling parents! Your teachers will have increased problems with class disruptions and bullying. You WILL have increased crime and theft and the only winner in the end will be the gambling industry...NOT the taxpayers! The modern gambling machines are downright dangerous...like cars with no brakes they are so addictive....and you will never hear of the suicides who weekly are dragged out of casino toilets. The embarrassed government will hide the true theft rate by settling out of court...when government employees steal YOUR money! PLEASE do not think for one minute that slots being legalised will bring more money to Maryland. After experiencing slots...around 85% of our citizens surveyed by local governments said NO they wanted slots BANNED! Why would we say that? If slots had lived up to the promises we were given?? PLEASE say NO?? PLEASE do not make the "Australian Mistake"? PLEASE do not think that slots will solve your troubles?"