Oregon Video Poker Commissions Likely Changing
Last week, Lottery Director Dale Penn recommended that bar and tavern commissions on new slot-machine style video games be about one-half the average rate now paid on video poker.
The difference between the current rate for video poker and Penn's proposed rate for video slot games is about $70 million, officials say.
"This could generate tens of millions of dollars for schools," said Christine Ertl, a member of the advocacy group Stand for Children who has two children attending Salem-Keizer schools.
At this point, devoting more lottery revenue to schools seems more likely than trying to find new tax revenue for schools.
Kulongoski, in issuing his $5 billion proposal for schools, said the state must live within existing tax revenue.
"There isn't any new money on the table for schools that he's aware of at this point," said the governor's spokeswoman, Anna Richter Taylor.
House Speaker Karen Minnis said Monday that Oregon voters' rejection of two tax increase proposals in the past two years has made it clear that people want government to live within its means.
"If we give more money to schools, it means you have to take it from somewhere else in the budget. Where's it going to come from?", the Wood Village Republicans said.
June 26, 2006
Posted By Tom Jones
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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