Why education funding should never be tied to Gambling
The Casino Watch blog reports:
. . . The problem, as explained by The Tampa Tribune, comes when gambling revenues are down. Florida’s situation is explained:
Just when lawmakers thought the state education budget cutbacks couldn’t get worse, they did.
Blame it on the dip in people who buy scratch-off lottery tickets. Lottery income, which usually accounts for about 5 percent of the state’s education budget, won’t be as much as lawmakers had expected this year when they first crafted the school spending plan.
Rep. Joe Pickens, the House education budget chief, is bracing for about a $40 million to $100 million drop in funds, he said Tuesday.
So now Florida is facing a situation where students will suffer if people don’t gamble and lose more money . . .