Our esteemed corporate benefactor in Charles Town who owns our race track claims to be a big contributor to our community's well being. They boast about how much the give, and will be expecting us, the voters, to approve them to add table games to their repertoire of gambling devices to help them help us.
Wow.
We need them to take money away from us to give some back?
What a great deal!
Out of almost $500M in revenue a year, they recently made a big splash (1/2 page) in the local paper for giving $62,000 to the local schools. Yes. Sixty Two Thousand dollars out of their almost Five Hundred Million dollars!
Is this help or political showmanship at virtually no cost to the company?
Are we, the citizens of Jefferson County, so naive that this pathetic "gift" will move us off our position (56% against) that we don't want our community changed from a peaceful, country community to a playground for their gambling clientele?
It's bad enough that the argument is about money instead of values, but with them insulting us with a "gift" that gives back slightly more than one one-hundredth of a percent we should all plant our feet more firmly than ever.
Does anyone else out there feel this way?
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The house never gives away something for nothing. If they give a token amount to the community it is meant to make the community feel obliged to the casino for their largess.
Their ultimate goal is to expand to a full blown casino and get you to play and keep on playing--the longer you play, the more you lose, the more they win.
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