{"id":42639,"date":"2013-11-11T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/gambling-legalise-and-tax-it"},"modified":"2014-02-09T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T16:23:30","slug":"gambling-legalise-and-tax-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/11\/gambling-legalise-and-tax-it","title":{"rendered":"Gambling: Legalise and TAX it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note Mr. Christie is now passing the blame for voting &#8220;no&#8221; in the gaming referendum, last January, on the electorate.<\/p>\n<p>I categorically reject this; if you are looking for a scapegoat, sir, look no further than your own Attorney General&#8217;s office who could not get the correct wording on the ballot. The ballot paper given to me asked if I wanted to regulate gambling. I suggest you cannot &#8220;regulate&#8221; an illegal act!<\/p>\n<p>If I had been asked to legalise AND regulate gambling, in all probability I would have voted &#8220;yes!&#8221; Personally this does not affect me, I have no interest gambling, but if a substantial number of the populace do partake, then legalise it and TAX it!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>By: Harry Strachan<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>Source: Weblog Bahamas<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Mr Christie is looking for a scapegoat, he need look no further than his Attorney General&#8217;s office, who could not get the correct wording on the ballot. The ballot paper asked if one wanted to regulate gambling. But you cannot &#8220;regulate&#8221; an illegal act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[93,31,137,142,108],"class_list":["post-42639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-gambling","tag-incompetence","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}