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cachukis

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Fri Jan 7, 2022, 07:51 PM Jan 2022

Just returned from my local Publix. While exiting [View all]

I was greeted by a man asking me to sign a petition. I asked, for what. He told me it was to authorize taxation on gambling wins. Who could argue that? Me. I know that the amendment is to expand sports gambling here in Florida to basically allow expansion to go outside the bounds of Tribal agreements. Doral, comes to mind.
There were seven or eight men in this fairly small parking lot, doing the same. I bet it is happening elsewhere tonight in Florida to get this amendment on the ballot.
It would appear to me that the organization behind this effort has other fingers on buttons.
We don't think as transactionally as do the monied people.
They are preying with a well rehearsed spiel, on the unsuspecting.
If you sign the petition for what you think it's for, you are more than likely to vote for it.

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They are all over and either truly don't know Phoenix61 Jan 2022 #1
Gambling wins are already taxable, at least by the feds. Ocelot II Jan 2022 #2
That's right. Sanity Claws Jan 2022 #3
Not A Gambler ProfessorGAC Jan 2022 #4
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