| Show OVER Bet Bookies Odds on New Taxes By H. I. Phillips CONGRESS may make pool register pay as well as a ten per cent special tax on all their It proposes that they reveal their keep have a license and open their records of day-by-day operations on There may be heavy penalties for a nicker without a as It But tiie war on gambling will never get far until the bettor are also required to You say bettors can't be asked to register and pay an because playing the for is not their Millions of horse players have regular but give more time to the form sheets and charts than do to their If trying to win a three-horse parlay an requiring years of hard what ten twe Is candid enough to admit that players might well come under an occupational would be surprised hew many people In tha United sr la every city and state are fully occupied In analysing past the race aver weights and distances and Jockey he said office and shop has st least a couple of guys an the payroll whose tune belongs to the boss but whose heart belongs to the They spend tho morals' out the beetles most of the afternoon for I have had regular jobs myself and I know how It I get borne every night so exhausted from that I always felt I should ask the boss for more money to lose on also But I got a tough The big bum sticks to the Job and pays strict attention to business while I am to win a dally double over the Is that thinks he should be subject to an occupational tax but that the boss should pay my next demands I am for two days off a week to go to the track and I think the boas should subscribe to the racing sheets for He should also pay my occupation tax as part of my social It is important to any business that the help be happy and that the morale be How can my morale be good on a Job if I have to play the races at my own about a law requiring the bookies to set aside funds for a pension fund for all horsa we got said it could not be governed by age limits on account of a horse player never gets too old to make a The law would have to make him eligible fur a pension after losing his parlay or maybe his dally a law compelled you and all bettors on football fights and so forth to we would be he suppose the Government would set up registration All I would ask It that these registration depots have plenty of sheets and a good of telephone booths In case I have to |
