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A look at the Senate's gambling-for-construction package
By The Associated Press
Monday, September 24, 2007 2:41 PM CDT
SPRINGFIELD - Here are highlights of a gambling-expansion plan considered by the Illinois Senate to fund a $13 billion capital construction program for road, school and mass transit projects:

l Authorized one new publicly owned, land-based casino in Chicago with 4,000 gaming positions.

l Creates two new riverboat casinos with 1,200 gaming positions each, with locations to be decided by the Illinois Gaming Board.

l Allows the Gaming Board to split up 6,000 new gaming positions at the nine existing riverboat casinos.

l Splits money from three new casinos between construction (70 percent) and education (30 percent).

l Charges riverboat casinos a tax to be paid to horse racing tracks for hurting their business.

l Provides $200 million for Chicago's mass transit system and $30 million for downstate transportation systems.

-The Associated Press

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Risking our Future wrote on Sep 24, 2007 11:13 AM:

" Since gambling is risky business and those who have problems with gambling too much are the really huge losers, this makes our state's welfare attached to our citizens' losses. This is not only risky and unethical, it is immoral! Have we lost our common sense about public funding? Raise taxes fairly on ALL but don't leverage our state's legitimate needs on illegitimate wagering schemes. There will be a day when all this Democratic fiscal irresponsibility will come back and bite us. Just you wait and see! "

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