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Documented or undocumented, each of those people need to be fed. Working for it is far better than eating at a charity or stealing to survive. A diversion to a second argument still reveals your darker side. I’m not in favor of dead horses and kill pens either, but when preferences come into play I side with human welfare over animal welfare any day. Jmho.
Sure, the lowest being on track handle and in house revenue from live patrons. The rest is welfare. Thank you for asking. Take away the subsidies and tell me what you're racing for. I'll wait.
Ok… let’s stop producing cars that are creating pollution and killing our planet. Let’s shut down farms that produce animal related goods and by products because animals die needlessly and there are bad actors in those industries too… we’ll retrain everybody who had no real skills at age 50+ to be carpenters and welders. 90% of the people involved I. Harness racing love the horses … unfortunately you’re to blinded by the vendetta and prefer only to see and focus on the other 10%.
Blinded by the vendetta against an industry… evil has overcome your soul.
So what??? Tell us something new. Does everone cry when Amazon gets millions of dollars in tax brakes to build a warehouse and creates worse and lower paying job. One thing good about harness racing the jobs are hands on. Not only that they create far more revenue for the state in taxes and jobs created then Amazon and others per dollars. Did you cry when harness racing gave the states 25 percent of millions in the golden age? Obviously there is rampant cheating issue but welfare is for people not working, at last check my harness trainers are mostly the hardest working people I know. Take away subsidies there would be no ballet, opera, many museums etc. Maybe take away subsidies for stadiums etc, yet we only bitch about harness racing and constantly call it welfare. Also lots of that money that flows through is taxed, and there is something called income tax that most states have. So the amount spent as a dollar amount costs the states far less. that is basic economics. And yes harness racing would be out of business without slot money but so would most dance and theater groups be too.
Are people shoving needles and tubes into those dancers then having the public bet on them? I don't remember reading that the federal government indicted anyone on Broadway for selling non detectable drugs used on actors that caused their hearts to fail.
All you clowns talk about is why aren't they "giving" you more. You actually got that part right. Nothing earned. You even say the people who saved racetracks are only driven by money, yet you don't hesitate to take the welfare and drink the Kool-Aid. Only time any of you talk is here because you are scared shitless knowing what will happen if you get caught. They yank your free ride. When you walk in most paddocks it's no different than walking into a social services office. Same thing, prove me wrong.