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A DOLLAR, A DREAM.(Arkansas state legislator Jim Lendall proposes that state gamble on lottery)
Publication: The New Yorker Publication Date: 26-MAY-03 Author: McGrath, Ben
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Budget crises are traditionally good news for gamblers. Determined not to raise taxes in the face of a severe deficit that promises unpopular spending cuts--zoos and firehouses closed, garbage and schoolchildren left behind--Governor George Pataki last week proposed that the city install video slot machines in its Off-Track Betting parlors. Aspiring millionaires would be spared having to ride the A train to the far reaches of Queens to play the slots at Aqueduct racetrack--which were themselves approved during the previous budget crisis, in 2001--and the state treasury would take in a few hundred million bucks. Everybody wins. But what would a solution be...
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