Senate kills bill to fund kids’ health care with gambling tax
HELENA - The Senate effectively killed a bill Monday to raise gambling taxes to provide health care coverage for all children, but it may not be the end of the issue.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 1993: Steve Wynn buys the Dune Hotel, then implodes it to make way for the Bellagio. The new MGM Grand is completed, once again becoming the world's largest hotel. On December 31, Barbra Streisand stars in the inaugural concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
- Legal gambling operations in Washington reported $1.7 billion in net receipts in 2005: 61 percent was reported by tribal casinos, 10 percent came from the state lottery. 2 percent of responders in a February state survey said they placed bets online.
- In 1911 US legislation prohibited stud poker but ruled that draw poker was a game of skill and therefore was not illegal.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
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