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Missouri Suspends Casino Expansion
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI --
The Missouri Gaming Commission decided unanimously on Monday to place a moratorium on new casinos in the state. The suspension will last until November, at which point several key issues will be on the ballot, allowing voters to decide the future direction of the gaming industry in Missouri.
Representatives of areas desiring casinos, especially Sugar Creek, were harsh in their evaluation of the Commission's vote. Sugar Creek has been working the political circles and preparing with all due diligence for eighteen months, and the town was scheduled for a priority investigation next month, which in the past has always led to licensing and establishment of a casino.
Communities such as Sugar Creek feel they are being denied equal economic opportunities, and want the marketplace to decide where casinos might best be built.
Among the issues to be decided in November are proposals to cap the number of casinos instate to the thirteen already operating plus one currently under construction in St. Louis, the increase of casino taxes by one percent, the earmarking of $100 million for schools and education, and the removal of the state's $500 maximum loss clause and the mandatory use of identification cards, part of the loss limit enforcement system.
Sugar Creek and others can wait the five months necessary for voters to speak; at this point, those communities are best served by educating the public so that an informed verdict can be rendered, hopefully removing the loss limit but allowing economic expansion.
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