{"id":11171,"date":"2009-02-09T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/state_lawmakers_bet_gambling_can_help_with_budgets\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T17:11:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:11:48","slug":"state_lawmakers_bet_gambling_can_help_with_budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11171","title":{"rendered":"State lawmakers bet gambling can help with budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tell-tale sign America&#8217;s chips are down: States are increasingly turning to gambling to plug budget holes.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals to allow or expand slots or casinos are percolating in at least 14 states, tempting legislators and governors at a time when many must decide between cutting services and raising taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Gambling has hard-core detractors in every state, but when the budget-balancing alternatives lawmakers must consider include reducing education funding or lifting sales taxes, resistance is easier to overcome, political analysts said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who wouldn&#8217;t be interested if you&#8217;re a politician who needs to fund programs?&#8221; said Bo Bernhard, director of research at the International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas \u201d\u201d a government-funded program.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090125\/ap_on_bi_ge\/states_gambling_on_gambling\">It is simply a hidden tax on the poor and it is fool&#8217;s gold for policy makers.  Makes the heart sad. Read it all.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tell-tale sign America&#8217;s chips are down: States are increasingly turning to gambling to plug budget holes. Proposals to allow or expand slots or casinos are percolating in at least 14 states, tempting legislators and governors at a time when<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11171\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,87,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-gambling","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}