outcome of a sportingevent, with a non-licensed bookie. A bookie is a person who people call upor met with to place bets with, usually on sports. A non-licensed bookie issomeone who is not registered and does not have a licenses Another form ofillegal gambling would be any kind of gambling in a non-regulated casinotype facility. For example, if the place where someone gambles does nothave the appropriate licenses and does not pays taxes then that is an illegalform of betting. The amount of money available in gambling is almost endless. Thelegalization of all forms of gambling in Ohio would give the state millions ofdollars of extra money. The Ohio initiative specifies that casino revenues, after pay out ofwinnings to gamblers, will be taxed 20 percent, with 80 percent of thecollected monies going to fund schools. Kate Hubben, a spokespersonfor Yes on One, the group campaigning for passage of the gamblinginitiative, says the tax is expected to raise $180 million to $200 millionfor Ohio schools. ‘While that certainly won’t solve’ all the problemsfacing the schools, she says, it would buy 62,000 computers and 4.56million text books (Weissman 3).The term “Yes on One” that Hubben refers to was Issue 1 on the Nov.5th ballot in 1996. Issue 1 was the proposed constitutional amendment toallow casino gambling in Ohio. It’s unfortunate to say that Issue 1 did notpass. It was voted down by a count of 2,659,076 against it to only 1,639,955for it (Official Report of Votes for Statewide Issue 1). If Issue 1 would ofbeen passed, the schools of Ohio would have had millions of dollars in theirpockets. Schools could buy more than just new books and computers. Forexample, they could hire more teaches to cut down class sizes, build newstate of the art school buildings, buy safer and better equipment for thereschools sports, buy safer and more fun playground equipment for youngergrades, buy new buses, incre...
