Your editorial column titled: “Sports Wagering a Good Bet” was a shallowly written propaganda piece.
Your comments that: “New Jersey residents want to bet on Sports” has no statistical merit.
Properly sampled surveys have repeatedly shown that the majority of New Jersey residents would not want sports gambling. In true socialist/progressive style, you turned a harmless bet between office co-workers into a government bureaucracy.
You give credence to Reagan’s quote: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Should we also tax allowances to children or birthday gift exchanges in order to raise more funds for government agencies that have shown nothing but mismangement and corruption? Does the 33 year Atlantic City fiasco not offer you enough true empirical evidence against such propositions?
How many “woes” has the Atlantic City experiment solved? Have you not heard of Las Vegas’ financial issues even though they have had sports gambling for years? No doubt, you would deny that information since it is real-life data and propagandists typically ignore hard data always chosing to operate in theoretical anomalies.
Lastly, from a pure business sense, you may want to edit your opinions as you will alienate spending patrons and consumers with your ideologies.
Luis Ruiz
