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Redirect casino tax revenues

Redirect casino tax revenues The Editorial Board / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Casino tax subsidies totaling almost $3.3 billion have gone to the state’s horse racing industry since 2004. It’s time to redirect a substantial portion of those monies to other needs in Pennsylvania. A recent poll by Franklin & Marshall College found that 83% of respondents favored using the $240 million annual allocation for other public purposes than the support of horse racing. Only 10% of those surveyed wanted to keep the current arrangement. The poll, commissioned by Education Voters of Pennsylvania, found that there was overwhelming support for redirecting the 12% of slots tax funding that now goes to the Race Horse Development Fund.

Students Or Horses? Education Advocates Want To Repurpose Pennsylvania s Generous Horse-Racing Subsidy

AP To Honor and Serve, right, with jockey Jose Lezcano, crosses the finish line in front of Ruler on Ice, with jockey Garrett Gomez, to win during the Pennsylvania Derby horse race at Parx Racing on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, in Bensalem, Pa. Education advocates are demanding Pennsylvania lawmakers make a choice: students or horses. They want the state to cut subsidies to the horse-racing industry that top $230 million annually and redirect the funds to students and the State System of Higher Education. Pennsylvania’s Racehorse Development Fund, the most generous in the nation after New York, traces back to 1967 but was vastly expanded in 2004.

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