Makes perfect sense.

Very true Neal.

Still, this state is BEHIND on the issue of slots. They finally got around to opening one, what, a year ago?
The concept of using them in places like airports and horse racing facilities is one of those common sense no-brainers that this state legislature has historically refused to see.

Those who fear gambling to you, I say "Look how well prohibition worked". Alcoholism is just as dangerous a side effect as gambling addiction. Both can and will ruin your life if allowed to.
You don't just ban everything that 'could be' dangerous. Walking down the street "could be dangerous" if you're not paying attention.

Tim, I am all for it, and table games as well. Just saying no one ever mentions the dirty little secret, that the budget is not balanced, they just move money around to make it appear that way.

Neal, absolutely.

There is such a thing as a conservative Democrat, you know :) Think they call em' Blue Dogs.

There's also progressive Republicans. Usually. Not in this current House of Rep though. Which is probably why they get nothing done, and have an approval rating three times as bad as our President.

Gee Tim, The way you word your the completely irrelevant second part of your comment makes it sound like that 10% approval rating for congress has nothing to do with the Democrat controlled Senate that continues to block one bill after another even when the Democrats also controlled the house. But why let a few pesky facts get in the way of a good liberal talking point.

Everyone knows the House controls the money, Bill. The buck stops in the House. Besides, the Senate Republicans brought filibustering to epic levels since 2008. See here: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/the-rise-of-cloture-how-gop-filibuster-threats-have-changed-the-senate.php.

Finally, calling me a liberal based on one point only further demonstrates ignorance.
The liberals on this board sure wouldn't call me one of their own, for example, when I tell them that illegal immigrants should be shown the door - not have their college tuition paid for.
They also wouldn't call me "one of their own" when I tell people 'Obamacare" was a terrible mistake. Not only can this Government not run healthcare properly (They can't even handle Medicare), but they implemented this at the worst economic time period possible. Pure idiocy.
My views don't completely fall into either party because, quite honestly, both parties are tragically flawed.

Tim, I apologize for causing you to think I was calling you a liberal by calling the second part of your comment "a good liberal talking point" because that was not my intent. The first sentence of your comment was spot on, but the second part was unnecessary and not even relevant to this issue. As you have seen when there is even the slightest opposition to the liberal agenda here in Maryland people such as P.A. love to spin the conversation off into a litany of unrelated topics with their redundant liberal rhetoric.

Delegate Bromwell has a brilliant counter to Gov. Owe'Malley's insane sales tax expansion and I was just concerned that you were trying to misdirect the topic by injecting something to utterly irrelevant into the conversation.