Slot Machines Coming to New Hampshire?

  The issue of slot machines coming to New Hampshire appears to be an issue that is coming back for debate. 

  To be honest with you, I don’t care one way or the other whether slot machines come to New Hampshire or not. I feel as though if people want to throw away their hard earned money on a total game of chance so be it. It’s not my call. I like to throw away a few quarters playing a little poker with my family once in a while. Who knows, maybe I would try it just for a little fun, I doubt it though. Playing poker with your family or friends for short money is as much about bragging rights as maybe winning five dollars, whereas playing slots is just a game of sheer chance in the hope of hitting it big.

  As I said, I don’t care one way or the other about the issue of slot machines coming to New Hampshire, but I do have an issue of WHY they want them in New Hampshire. Just read the paragraph below from this New Hampshire Union Leader article.

The idea is nothing new. It’s come up before, and it’s been killed before. This time, some lawmakers think it has a better shot. The state faces a revenue crunch over education funding, and gambling could be an alternative to raising existing taxes on business or property.

  The revenue crunch the state is facing is due to the fact that Governor Lynch succumbed to a court ruling that had no legal basis. The court over-reached their bounds in declaring that the state had to fund education, even though it is the local communities who are bound to fund education. Now New Hampshire has passed a bill to fund education, but the governor in his latest budget didn’t bother to figure out the cost of such an education. He raised fees and taxes on everything, and we still haven’t funded education. Now the state needs more money. This was so fiscally irresponsible, I can’t even put it into words. You pass a state funding bill because the court says you have to, even though the state isn’t obligated to fund education according to our state constitution, and then say we will decide the cost later? Now we must pay, but how?

  The bottom line here is that the state was under no obligation to fund education, the ruling should have been challenged by a governor with some balls, unfortunatelly we have a governor all to willing to have the state take over education. Now that the state will be funding education the state will be able to control the curriculum, something they have no control over now, and that is the true reason why the governor wants to fund the schools, so he can push his liberal agenda down the throuts of our children.

  New Hampshire is headed down the road so many other blue state have traveled. It is being done slowly and doesn’t seem to be apparent to enough New Hampshire voters. We are being conquered from within and need to wake up and spot the Trojan horse of education that is hiding an income and sales tax within.