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Oregon Wants Bigger Piece of Video Gambling Pie
SALEM, OREGON --
With revenues dropping as the recession drives down sales on video gambling machines, Oregon lawmakers are debating increasing the tax on the games to replace lost funds. Bar owners operating the gaming devices are protesting, saying their profits are down as well.
Oregon legislators apparently are pondering the concept that the state's share should have a minimum, and the retailers running the video gambling machines should suffer twice for the general economic situation.
State Senator Ginny Burdick goes so far as to suggest that giving the bars that carry the machines a share of the profits is a subsidy to the businesses just like the services paid for by the state.
Profits on the gambling machines is down 20 percent, for both state and retailer. But bar owners say a state smoking ban has caused the difficulty as much as the economy.
"We're all hanging on to the hope that we don't have to pay any more for the state of Oregon's decision to ban smoking in our business," tavern owner Ed Fairbank told the Oregonian.
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