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Show Lakeside Review, Wednesday, January 14, 1987 6A Legislators debate lottery issue percent of the gambling profits in Wendover, Nev. come from along the Wasatch Front, says one state legislator. And he is proposing a state lottery to shut off the floodgate" and bring more revenue back into the Utah coffers. Lake, Jtep. Arlo James, sponsor of legislation allowing for a state lottery, joined Rep. Dale Warner, County, and Dr. Ron Holt in an Issues Forum Thursday to debate the issue. Holt is the director of honors at the college. I want to shut off the floodgates that are leaving Utah, James said. I think you have to evaluate (the state lottery) just like you do any budgetary item in your home, in your school, or wherever you are thats in the wants, the needs and the desires categoSixty-on- e R-S- he said. ries, can attest there are more than just me that want it. There are now 31 states that have state lotteries, he said. The states to most recently approve lotteries are Utah neighbors Idaho and Montana, along with South Dakota, Kansas and FloriI da. Warner countered James argu- ment. No one will argue with the fact that the lottery raises money, he said. He called the issue a moral dilemma, asking the question Is it proper for the state to encourage and promote gambling? If gambling were legal, does it follow that the state should be the pusher? he asked. At some point society must address the lottery from the bottom line, he said. Is it right or wrong? To do anything less is to turn the matter over to political expediency. Ir He said to allow a little wrong for the good that might result places the government in the position of having to allow even more wrongs in the future, for financial expediency. Where do we draw the line? money, ...no state lottery has ever produced enough revenue to Warner called the lottery a rebecome an alternative to property gressive tax on the poor. He said tax. history has proven that lotteries He said that in result in the poor paying out a those states which historically, have a lottery, disproportionate share of their in- residents resent having to pay come to lotteries. he asked. taxes above and beyond what the afford cant to If you want to compromise lose, he lottery raises. They for two to four percent of the said. The average taxpayer already states budget, you can do that. Holt said that education in thinks his taxes are too high, and If you want to circumvent the Utah is facing a crisis with falling still wants a free education for moral issues.. .then I can show state revenues and a rising popuall his children." you revenue increasing measures lation. He estimated the state could that we can take ail over the He said morale in Utah is low, raise $41.6 million through a place. raises are an endangered species James said there is a move- and we are losing good educators state lottery. On the other hand, he said, ment in Washington to establish to other states, who have more filotteries are not a cure-al- l. There a national lottery. If the state nancial incentives. is not a single state where lottery does not have one in place at the He said that while some states revenue amounted to as much as time the national one takes hold, have accepted lotteries as the six percent of the total state said James. The federal government most painless way to raise would...reduce what the lotteries from those states could have done. Lotteries are not inherently bad, said James. He said the British water system, four prominent U.S. universities and twothirds of the Civil War were all financed by lotteries. James said any criminal element which might accompany a state lottery ...is already here He referred to sports betting at the time of the World Series or Super Bowl. 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