Rob Walgate: Casino deal violates Ohio rule of law
In November 2009, Ohioans passed a constitutional amendment legalizing casino gambling. The state constitution, much like the federal constitution, is a sacred compact of the citizens. It is the controlling authority for law and practice in this state. When the people amend their constitution, it is imperative that all branches of the government abide by this highest ruling authority in the state.
The 2009 casino amendment, which the Ohio Roundtable opposed, was written by the casino industry. The gambling interests advocating passage of the amendment wrote every word, paid millions for their campaign and won an election. The voters approved State Issue 3, which is now the final word on casino gambling in Ohio. Those words can be changed only by the legal process of further amendments.
That language of Issue 3 specifically fails to exempt the casinos from paying the Ohio Commercial Activity Tax on gross revenues. The amendment specifically binds the casinos to pay all taxes levied in general against any other Ohio business. The Commercial Activity Tax clearly fits into this most obvious description.
The governor needs no other language to enforce the CAT on the casinos. They enforced it upon themselves in the construction of their own amendment. The failure to collect the tax would be a violation of the Ohio Constitution and state statutes.
The governor has consistently stated that he is trying to "get a better deal" for Ohio.
Issue 3 is a bad deal for Ohio; however, it is the law. It cannot be changed by backroom deals. If the governor is serious about getting a better deal for Ohio, he should ask the legislature to place an amendment on the ballot to reconstruct Issue 3. He could do this in short order, taking less time and money than all the backroom deals have spent to date.
In addition, any "deal" to place slot machines at Ohio racetracks is a clear violation of the Ohio Revised Code and the Constitution. Such a practice cannot become legal by edict of the governor or any "deal" struck with casino operators. If the governor wants to open racetrack casinos with Vegas-style slot machines, he is required by law to take such a proposal to the voters.
Furthermore, the notion that the governor can issue a "moratorium" on expanding gambling sites by edict is equally legally absurd. By what authority does this governor or any governor suggest he has the right to grant casino operations to some people but not to others? Why are only certain cities being chosen? Why a 10-year moratorium? Why not 20 years or 100 years?
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When the people amend their constitution, it is imperative that all branches of the government abide by this highest ruling authority in the state. The 2009 casino amendment, which the Ohio Roundtable opposed, was written by the casino industry.
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In my blogging career I have made more than a few comparisons between the changing social, political, and economic structure in the United States since 1980 and the conditions most commonly associated with "third world" countries. I (and presumably others who make the same observations) use some creative license when saying such things. As we eliminate what made our society great we take on the characteristics of a developing country – great wealth concentrated in an ever-smaller number of hands, puppet media, mass incarceration as social control, divide-and-conquer tactics forcing the general public to fight over the scraps of the economy, etc. Nonetheless I understand that the United States is not actually a third world country. We are not a kleptocracy in sub-Saharan Africa, a Central American banana republic, or a rock-strewn post-Soviet hellhole in the Transcaucus. While our socioeconomic profile might be drifting in the direction of those countries, the U.S. has something they don't: functioning institutions of government. From the micro-level (local school districts) to the trillion-dollar institutions of the federal government, we have a government that kinda, sorta, sometimes, usually functions – even if not well – toward its intended purpose.
At least for the moment. Don't worry, Sierra Leone; we're catching up as fast as we can. A few more years of Tea Party governors and we'll be Tajikistan before you know it.
The most important institution of government that separates us from the barbarians we like to condescend is a functioning legal system. This is what We have and They do not. Despite the founders' characterization of the judiciary as the "least dangerous" branch, having neither "the sword nor the purse", it also happens to be the most important. Failed and quasi-developed states have sham judiciaries that make decisions based on fiat. We do not. Don't get me wrong, our legal system still produces injustice by the wagon load and the bulk of our criminal laws are nonsensical. But our most important courts, the courts of appeal, make decisions based on written law. Justices have different interpretations of what that written law means in a given context, but they are making decisions based on A) previous decisions and B) a constitution and statutes. When that breaks down, and a legal system makes decisions based solely on partisan politics, then the government surrenders the pretense of being a representative one and becomes a dictatorship. Perhaps not a brutal one, and maybe even one that represents some portion of the popular will, but a dictatorship nonetheless.
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RT : 78% of Americans can name the Three Stooges but only 42% can name the Three Branches of Government. 
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