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State Senatoring is Hard

by: Dean Barker

Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 06:47:32 AM EST
Oh please:
Senate Finance Chair Lou D'Allesandro (D-Manchester) is unsure about his own party leader's approach toward controlling health care costs would actually work, but was certain that the Senate already had enough to do.

"[Hassan's proposal S.B. 505] is a huge undertaking," D'Allesandro said in an interview. "I am dealing with budget deficits, dealing with the LLC tax and gaming. My plate is full and her effort is Hurculean and doesn't have a lot of time for discussion."

Too busy with gaming to control health care costs.

If I wanted Senate leadership to pay more attention to my pet issue, I probably wouldn't try to negotiate horse trading via the "Senatoring is Hard" narrative.  But that's just me.
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Could we stick with "gambling", please? (4.00 / 3)
It's gambling! Games don't cost. Monopoly is a game. Tiddly Winks is a game.

Slots and Texas Hold'Em is gambling. And more often than not, YOU LOSE!

The good Senator wants to legalize gambling. No law currently prevents me from playing a festive round of Hungry, Hungy Hippos at the local Applebees.

By calling it "gaming" we are helping them dilute the stigma.

"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." - John Dryden

Could it be that the strategy (4.00 / 1)
is to eventually put it under the jurisdiction of Fish & Game?

Sorry. Having a bad day.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

[ Parent ]
Right. It's gambling, risk taking-- (4.00 / 2)
what they do down on Wall Street with other people's money all the time.  
From where I sit, what people do with the money they accumulate in their pockets or their bank accounts is their business.  If they want to throw it into the lake or the poor box, fine.  
On the other hand, their use of it in trade or exchange represents a reliance on the public trust and that reliability ought to be taxed.  Which is why I'm in favor of a transaction tax.  Money used in transactions should be taxed at point of use.

Call it the "point of use tax" or POUT.

[ Parent ]
Two points: (4.00 / 3)

1. Being senator is hard-- there are too few of them and lots to do. Maybe however if it didn't cost a minimum of $100K to run, we might find more and better people able  to take on the burden. The talent pool is very small when you need that much money to play the game.

2. Hooray for Maggie Hassan-- she works incredibly hard and takes on the hard issues regardless of whether they are likely to make big donors happy.

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

Other than wasting time for the sake of stalling, (4.00 / 1)
There is no issue a legislative body should avoid because they already have plenty to do.

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Hope > Anarch-tea
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