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  • From: Terry Bjork via Derby
  • Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 10:34:26 -0800 (PST)
  • Subject:

    [Derby] NY bill to strip $230M/yr from racing subsidies


They are at it again. Two New York legislators have introduced bills that would take $230M/yr of VLT revenue away from NY horse racing and send it toward education etc. instead.

$230M/yr ... that's quite some subsidy.

"The legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, D-Brooklyn, and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-Manhattan, is backed by a cadre of animal rights groups and social service nonprofits, who said they plan to use advertising and grassroots organizing to draw attention to the issue.

'The state has been propping up this industry for decades and there is no reason for that to continue, especially when we need the money the state has been giving to the industry', Rosenthal said in an interview."

Blah blah. Everyone needs that money.

But what the Assembly created, the Assembly can take away.

https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/New-bill-would-redirect-funds-from-horse-racing-16625973.php


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