It seems the way to get a law or amendment passed in Missouri is to vote on it once, have it fail, then vote on it again. I guess the reason Missouri is the Show Me State is that we are so dense we have to be shown how to do things. For example, the least intelligent voters in the country weren't in Florida during the Bush-Gore chad debacle. If I remember right, Missourians elected a dead man.
So here we are again with another proposal to build a riverboat casino in Rockaway Beach. A similar amendment was beaten just two years ago, outvoted across the state, and roundly defeated in counties closest to the proposed casino site.
Ross Summers, president and CEO of the Branson/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce, said, "the expansion of gambling as a detriment to tourism," but I think the evidence says it is more. Gambling seems to lead to increased crime and significant family problems, econonically, emotionally and socially. It just sucks money from people, like some kind of stupidity tax.
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