Hassan should reconsider casino gambling plan
To the Editor:
Dear Gov. Hassan:
How can you "balance" a budget when $80 million is based on thin air? To say a casino, a slots parlor, will miraculously drop all this windfall into your lap is smoke and mirrors.
Gambling will bring theft, bankruptcy, unemployment and an increase in welfare and divorce. People will lose jobs because gambling will become their only focus. There are precious few big winners.
Crime is up in Connecticut, as is divorce and welfare. Children go hungry because a parent blew another paycheck.
You don't know if a bill will pass, let alone how much "profit" we might see. Raise the gasoline and tobacco taxes, bump up the liquor tax, but please, keep gambling out of New Hampshire.
Reduce pensions and retirement pay and no more big payouts for sick leave. Have employees pay a higher percentage of health insurance, but no statewide gambling.
Frederick S. Gray
Portsmouth
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