Republican Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh: ”Hundreds of Alabama dollars are getting to Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee and Georgia to play in their lotteries, their gambling enterprises,’ he says.
Gambling reforms are underway in Alabama thanks to the efforts of Republican Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, whose bill, SB 453, seeks to determine a state lottery as well as legalize gambling at the state’s four tracks that are greyhound.
Del Marsh launched his push that is legislative just after a report he commissioned himself concluded that gambling expansion could generate up to $400 million for the state.
The analysis, carried out by the Auburn University of Montgomery, also found that gambling expansion would create around 11,000 jobs in Alabama.
Del Marsh is promoting SB 454 as an alternative that is viable the $541 million taxation hike proposed by Governor Robert Bentley.
‘ I say let the people of Alabama vote,’ proclaimed Del March. ‘The choice is obvious to me personally: would you like to raise taxes by $700 million or do would like a lottery and casino gaming that will generate $400 million and create 11,000 jobs that are new having to raise taxes? The people of Alabama should determine this concern for themselves, and nobody else.’
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