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Illinois Gambling Opponents Criticize Infrastructure Bill Funding
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS --
Individual communities around the state of Illinois have decided to take their option to reject electronic gaming, a form of gambling Governor Pat Quinn wants to use to fund a $30 billion state improvement bill. The law, which would fix bridges and roads and build new schools, uses projected revenue from electronic gambling machines which would be allowed in bars and restaurants around the state.
Actually, the machines already exist in many of the locations at which the bill would permit them. But presently, they operate untaxed, as gaming is only for "entertainment value," with no payments allowed, wink wink.
Now, anti-gambling leaders are driving fights to get towns to reject what the state has passed, without considering the loss in capital improvements and job creation the bill means.
"(Quinn) should never have tied a capital construction bill to gambling," Illinois professor John Kindt , an anti-gambling crusader with a sketchy reputation for objectivity and facts, told the Southtown Star. "It's surprising how fast the opposition has been developing."
Kindt and his allies do not publicly acknowledge the possibility of the infrastructure developments being cancelled if gaming funding is not forthcoming, nor do they propose how to otherwise pay for the improvements.
A spokesman for Quinn told the Star that, despite some withdrawals, the revenue projections from the gambling bill remain valid.
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