Is it Time for Lottery and Legalized Gambling in AL?

[autigeremt 6,562]

http://www.wkrg.com/story/28762327/alabama-democrats-legalize-gambling-create-a-state-lottery

Poll shows 88% of people who have responded say yes! It is time!

[RunInRed 16,356]

Past time. Unless you always want the government telling us what we can and can't do ...

[Weegle777 78]

Yes it is time, way past time.

[AUDub 11,131]

I'd be a hypocrite if I said I was against it, seeing as I buy a ticket every time I go to Florida or Georgia.

[Texan4Auburn 1,626]

People drive across the lines constantly in Alabama to buy tickets in other states. Yes.

[Mikey 16,545]

Why not? Our citizens are driving elsewhere to gamble and buy lottery tickets. Let's have our own state keep the money.

[AUFAN78 3,889]

I don't do lotteries, but if they can truly benefit the state financially go for it.

[Auburn85 432]

I'm for it. With the revenue, they should try to eliminate the sales tax on groceries or reduce the income tax rate.

[aujeff11 6,243]

Not that baseball matters in the grand scheme but I would love for our baseball players to start receiving Hope scholarships and what not. It would definitely help with recruiting and our program in general.

[autigeremt 6,562]

Past time. Unless you always want the government telling us what we can and can't do ... ;)/>

Touché says the ACA.

But yes....its past time.

[DKW 86 7,410]

Is it Time for Lottery and Legalized Gambling in AL?

The real question should be: Is it Time for Alabama to collect revenue from the Lottery and Legalized Gambling that people in Alabama already spend everyday in other states?

BTW, the answer is YES.

[Texan4Auburn 1,626]

Not that baseball matters in the grand scheme but I would love for our baseball players to start receiving Hope scholarships and what not. It would definitely help with recruiting and our program in general.

Give it to the softball team lol. They are the ones that are winning and selling tickets.

[JoeBags7277 734]

Its past time, but bet money that every Southern Baptist preacher from Dauphin Island to Ft Payne will be ginning up fear and getting his people to the polls.

The best way to phrase this argument for the low info voters, IMO, is "How much higher would you like to see your taxes raised in order to continue forcing grown men and women to go spend their money in another state?"

This state is in terrible financial shape, with budgets that will have to be balanced one way or the other. I don't gamble, but it really doesn't matter. This will affect all of us.