After SPIN! Video -How is Carolina Keno legal, when video poker parlors were not?"
Published November 17, 2017
After SPIN! "Question to Brad and Rufus –Question to Brad and Rufus – For many years North Carolina has enforced laws against video poker, shutting down parlors across the state. Now the North Carolina Lottery has started a video poker game online. Why is this legal when the video poker parlors were not?"
November 17, 2017 at 7:57 pm
Norm Kelly says:
One governments abhor and eliminate is competition. Government monopolies are good; private sector monopolies are bad. Go figure.
It's not illegal gambling when sanctioned by the state. It's lottery. It's only illegal gambling when it's run/managed by private business that actually employs people to run the system. Not only do government monopolies eliminate competition, they also simply suck incentive out of everything they touch.
One of the worst decisions made in recent decades has been state-sanctioned gambling in our state. And is this another boon-doggle that passed on party lines - how many Republicans voted for it versus how many libs/alt-left zealots/socialists voted against it?
But, just like socialized medicine, once the scheme is implemented, it's hard to take away 'benefits' from those on the take!
