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7/11/2008: Dificille Letter to Ottawa Citizen Slots profit too low
Two Ottawa area councillors want to see more profits from slot machines in their local area:
Alta Vista Councillor Peter Hume and Barrhaven Councillor Jan Harder think the province should be turning more gambling profits from slot machines over to the city. The city gets about three per cent of the take from machines at Rideau Carleton Raceway, while the two councillors say the city should be getting 10 per cent of the take.
Toronto and Ottawa municipal councillors want the same.
Letter to the editor: Ottawa Citizen
Stop and think a minute
This is not slots profit, 3 million dollars is that small part of 100 million dollars from the area slots,
giving back a small portion of community money.
Your own money.
Add to that, a similar amount for pari-mutual betting,
Add to that another maybe 100 million for lottery,
Add to that another maybe 100 million for Bingo and Nevada tickets etc.
To ask for 10 million, is maybe asking for 2 % of the money OLG siphons from the community.
As much as a half billion dollars is diverted from the Ottawa business community,
Probably for Toronto, as much as 3 billion dollars.
Perhaps a new term should be coined for OLG.
— G difficile — gambling gaming.
P. S. Don’t forget to factor in what crosses the river to Hull.
OLG diverts about 200,000 plus jobs into what?
Certainly not into community business where it belongs.
Perhaps, no doubt, SARS would be cheaper to have than OLG.
At least SARS is honest.
Difficile means difficult, G could be government, gambling, gaming.
C difficile is hard to get rid of, the G word is equally difficile.
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