There was a time when California officials thought legal gambling would pay off big for government budgets. These days, revenues from casinos to the state lottery are a small percentage of the total take. And it's unlikely there's any effort to change that in the near future.
The California Lottery provides only around a penny of every dollar spent on education in the state.
The proposal would have allowed sports betting in gaming establishments large and small, including tribal casinos and local card rooms. That it wasn’t written to offer some of the winnings to local or state governments was notable — after decades of debate, it now seems a settled issue that expanding legal gambling won’t pay off for public services.Several times during the depths of California’s state budget woes, there were efforts to boost revenues through more gambling.
But a federal court sided with tribes in 2010, limiting the payments to those earmarked for helping impoverished or non-gaming tribes. A report last week by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office found what was a $330-million-a-year subsidy to California’s general fund as recently as 2016 is now down to only $3.6 million in the current fiscal year. That could fall even further as gaming agreements with 35 tribes across the state expire next year, with new deals to be negotiated by Gov.
For voters, that doesn’t square with the promise they believed of easy government money from gambling — often made as part of an effort to balance the books with new “sin taxes” on things that include alcohol and tobacco.
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