Monday, April 09, 2007

The Boston Globe reports

some 61% of respondents in a recent poll back the introduction of casino gambling here in the Commonwealth.
The Chimes at Midnight is in general opposed to such a measure, it represents proxy taxation of the working class as well as the corporatization of an otherwise minor controllable vice. Now there may be a revenue windfall for the Commonwealth but what jobs will be created other than more low wage service sinecures?
No, Humble Elias is agin' it, it's classic "short money" type thinking of a type we can do without.

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