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6/15/2008: Ontario Superior Court of Justice - Peter Aubrey Dennis & Zubin Philroze Noble/ Ontario Lottery Corporation
Statement of Claim Filed June 9, 2008
News stories:
Toronto Sun: Betting on a Lawsuit
Niagara Falls Review: Gamblers file OLGC lawsuit
Torontoist: A Different Score For Problem Gamblers?
National Post: Lottery group failed to protect problem gamblers, lawsuit alleges
The Toronto Star: (April 2007) Casinos not taking chances in courts
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation: Wikipedia
Administrator
November 1st, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Should U.S. Government issue “Economic Stimulus Debit Cards” that Can’t Be Spent Gambling?
U.S. Media has not broadly addressed, and it is not known—if legalized gambling contributed to the large number of credit card, mortgage defaults, and home foreclosures that plague the nation: or how many Americans have written checks against their home-equity-line to cover gambling losses. Legalized gambling has gone national and now exists in several states.
Senator Harry Reid and other Democrats want Congress to approve a Second Rebate/Stimulus Plan that could provide billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Americans to stimulate economic recovery and help overcome the credit crisis.
U.S. elected representatives repeatedly state—millions of small American businesses are the backbone, the engine of the U.S. Economy. If that is true, shouldn’t U.S. Government make every effort to ensure Americans spend their next multi-billion-dollar “taxpayer Stimulus”— at businesses that don’t put Citizens at risk of losing their economic cash stimulus?
It might better serve Taxpayers if U.S. Government issued Americans “Economic Stimulus Debit Cards” that can only be used to pay for retail goods, utilities, medical bills and other primary items Americans need to survive during these hard economic times?
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See:
INSIDE GAMING: Stimulus may go out of pockets, onto felt
Yes, says one Wall Street analyst.
4 February 2008
by Howard Stutz, Benjamin Spillman and Arnold M. Knightly
November 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I wonder if the AGA would then be able to claim extra tax exemption if they are denied this equal opportunity…
It looks like they beat the loss limit in one state.