Game rooms, legal or not, have tacit approval

forgot to mention, it has one of the stranger quotes i have seen in awhile

"Sin ain't sin if good people do it," ....Shannon Edmonds, head of governmental relations for the Texas District and County Attorneys Association.
 
breaking the law is breaking the law. and the officials who are looking away for tax revenue should be arrested too.
you dont like a law change it the right way this is wrong in so many ways. corruption!!!! if a person wants to sale theirself for sex is it ok if they pay a corruption tax fee? drug dealer pays a tax to sale drugs is that ok he's not hurting anyone?
 
I'm suprised there wasn't a quote like this one:

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

Captain Renault, Casablanca, 1942
 
each person that knows or has anything to do with any portion including taxing has sold their ethics and sold them cheep if they did not report this as a crime. please remember when a crime is not reported and it affects you and others who knew it was on going and looked away,,,, dont be mad you set your own self up by being passive on this now....
 
Don't you kind of get the feeling these guys are going to be visited real soon by either federal/state law enforcement or thieves looking for and easy mark?

BTW, I never said I agreed or disagreed with what was going on, just amazed at the blatant disregard for the law. Eric always seems to find these stories.
 
If Texas would just make it legal, there wouldn't be all these hoops for everyone to try and jump through.

Having owned a gameroom, I know first hand how everyone wants 'a piece of the pie'. While most don't, we chose to go through our local city council before opening ours. We got town approval and offered a percentage of our profit to the town to help it out. We were told it was up to the city council on whether or not we could offer cash or gift cards or tickets. We didn't even bother to ask. We didn't want to offer cash for obvious reasons. The comptroller made regular stops checking that our machines had their regulated stickers on them (which we did pay a fee for) and advised on nothing else.

We eventually shut down because we refused to pay cash to winners. We tried to be legal and went out of business.
 
CowboyP":1zfgauzx said:
It's an interesting story, and I hope federal authorities read it. Maybe they'll do something about it.
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Thankfully, federal authorities have no jurisdiction over state matters - unless there is a violation of federal law.

The state sponsors gambling. It's supposed to go towards 'education'. At least that was the line the masses were sold back in the early 90's to get the lottery passed.

The state allows bingo. If that's not gambling, I don't know what you could call it.

But 8-liners is a horrible sin? According to the article, the 8-liner laws are so vague, it is a burden on the community to even try to enforce the rules. I think legislating morality is a huge reason this country is flat broke and getting broker.

The downside to all this is that now several counties in Texas have a vested interest in keeping these moronic machines whizzing and buzzing. If you instituted a tax on the people to raise that much revenue, you'd have a revolution on your hands. But these lonely, lifeless old farts will gladly plunk their social security checks into their favorite 8-liner.

Should they be protected from themselves?
 
oldfat&bald":1hn2219k said:
I think the quote that fits best here is "The more corrupt a government is, the more laws it has on the books."
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i will give you that.... we need to remove most and start over
 
On the bright side game rooms keep all the crack heads occupied instead of them robbing everyone blind..........oops that ain't right lord I apologize be with the starving pigmys down There in new guinea amen , that's funnier than watching a one legged man in a butt kicking contest
 
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