Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: Tempest
What happened to your post?
First page of the link you provided:
Quote:
Gambling participation and expenditure rates
increased with household income. For example,
58% of households with incomes of less than
$20,000 gambled in 2003 and spent an average
of $312, while equivalent figures for those with
incomes of $80,000 or more were 79% and
$725.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/studies-etudes/75-001/comm/5018851-eng.pdf
And yes, government allows gambling for the same reason they allow cigarettes, easy tax revenue.
I was posting a couple links from Statistics Canada but end up not having time to finish it. Homework and family issue is more important you know, rather than entertaining an ultra conservative Las Vegan in pointless argument.
I'll take a rain check for another day on this issue.
Bottom line is that you are a statist that wants to control the lives of 300 million other people according to your feelings. You already live in a smoke free city where you do not have to endure any somkers in your work, home, restaurants, and bars.
You think that if you even smell smoke you get cancer from second hand smoke, which is la la fairy land. You think higher insurance premiums are in part due to smokers which is patently false. You should have no say in the matter as it is demonstrable that you are not effected in any way by it other than you you may in a collective sense profit from the duties levied on others and not on yourself.
Originally Posted By: Tempest
What happened to your post?
First page of the link you provided:
Quote:
Gambling participation and expenditure rates
increased with household income. For example,
58% of households with incomes of less than
$20,000 gambled in 2003 and spent an average
of $312, while equivalent figures for those with
incomes of $80,000 or more were 79% and
$725.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/studies-etudes/75-001/comm/5018851-eng.pdf
And yes, government allows gambling for the same reason they allow cigarettes, easy tax revenue.
I was posting a couple links from Statistics Canada but end up not having time to finish it. Homework and family issue is more important you know, rather than entertaining an ultra conservative Las Vegan in pointless argument.
I'll take a rain check for another day on this issue.
Bottom line is that you are a statist that wants to control the lives of 300 million other people according to your feelings. You already live in a smoke free city where you do not have to endure any somkers in your work, home, restaurants, and bars.
You think that if you even smell smoke you get cancer from second hand smoke, which is la la fairy land. You think higher insurance premiums are in part due to smokers which is patently false. You should have no say in the matter as it is demonstrable that you are not effected in any way by it other than you you may in a collective sense profit from the duties levied on others and not on yourself.
