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Members of the Minnesota House of Representatives are currently debating a bill which would allow the operation of a limited number of online gambling sites. The bill would also expand a Canterbury Park card playing club and allow Canterbury to add a casino. Those who approve of the idea of allowing a limited number of online gambling sites to operate cite several reasons for their support of the bill. First of all, taxes from expanded gambling and legalized online gambling sites would fill several holes in the Minnesota state budget- specifically, those that some say will be created if the state Supreme Court declares that it is illegal to impose a 75- cent tax on cigarette packs. Others say making some online gambling sites legal for Minnesota residents would allow the state to benefit from its own racetrack industry. At present, they say, internet gambling sites from around the world offers betting on Minnesota’s horse races, while the state reaps no benefits. “People with a bank of computers are siphoning that off,” Cort Holten of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association said of offshore internet casino operators. “They don’t have a dime invested in the Minnesota horse-racing industry.”
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