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It's All About the Money

State and county governments created a pot of gold under a rainbow when the state decided to authorize the building of a billion casinos in the state instead of reforming the state budgetary process and being honest with the citizens of Pennsylvania with taxes. There's no intent to lower taxes or restrain spending by Harrisburg, just every weaselly way to squeeze more money from the citizens in any way possible. And, well, letting them gamble themselves stupid was - politically - a genius idea in separating the gullible from their after-tax dollars.

But a funny thing happened along the way, at least to Montgomery County, and it's that not all counties will get a piece of the action. While other counties with casinos shake down citizens for millions, MontCo will get nothing as a result of a provision inserted into the 2009 law by county Rep. Mike Gerber, who thought it would be more fair to let other counties rake in the cash but deny his own.

Now, I don't think any counties should get anything. I don't think there should be gajillions of casinos generating filthy lucre for the state and county governments. But I think the explanation by Gerber for writing a law denying his own county money everyone else is getting is ludicrous.

And, I think the county officials whining they're not getting a cut are moronic fools. This is money they have never gotten, and they clearly don't need it. They just want it so they can spend it. Period. End of story. County officials can spend less, tax less and cut useless services to make the budget in MontCo work. But they don't want to do that. Don't want to.

And, oddly, the state has tied itself in knots to make it difficult to reopen the gambling law, which is a hilarious mathematical proof of how incompetently inept our state legislators are. They're afraid of the debate that might erupt:

But no matter what they make of the current setup, the county's legislators agree that changing it would prove a Herculean task. For two years, Pennsylvania's gaming laws have been locked in place for fear that introducing revisions could incite a legislative free-for-all of amendments and would bog down debate.

Clearly, the assclowns who govern us realize they have a problem, and have chosen not to deal with it. Really, you have to wonder what, exactly a "free-for-all of amendments" means to the morons who spend our money. I'm guessing they realize there's not enough room for graft for everyone in the potential money-stream, especially now that they know about how much cash stupid citizens are willing to give the state for the opportunity to dream about striking it rich on a lucky hand.

This is responsible governing?

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