Kentuckians Desire Casinos

Casino gambling is the most up-to-date in a short but growing list of creative ways to finance government. Like the lottery, it would almost certainly slow down the float of Kentuckians passing borders to waste their money. And just as the state lottery did, it would support other bordering states to think positively over casino gambling. Tennessee would probably go after, as it did with the state lottery, to keep its inhabitants from coming to Kentucky to pay for gambling services.

One association trying to encourage such effort names itself the Kentucky Equine Education Plan. It states publicly that casino gambling limited to racetracks to be the rescuer of the in danger horse industry and at the same time a source of new income for the state and the local government. Along with its members is ex-governor Brereton Jones, a Woodford County horseman fan.

The disagreement for approving casinos in Kentucky is dual. Keep states it would take back some of the incomes being lost to Indiana and Illinois, as our general public with a will to endanger their salaries now take a trip across the rivers and borders, depositing taxes into the treasury of those states - tens of millions of dollars that may well be used to resolve problems at this point. Simultaneously, profits from the institution of Kentucky future-casinos would be used to improve rewards at our horse competitions, tempting starving competitors back to our state, a shift that would reinforce that struggling industry.