Poor Tax?
I guess I'm cynical, but I've come to view gambling casinos as a type of poor tax. I know that no one forces anyone to gamble, and to put a couple hundred bucks into the slot machines. But so many of the run of the mill folk at the casinos are poorer folk looking for a jackpot to get out of the hole. Look how they bus in the old people to these places. Although, I've never heard of any old person complaining -- or that they are forced get on that bus.
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