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The law would repeal loss limits at casinos, which would cause already desperate people to lose even more of their money. Seriously – I think a $500 every two hour limit is fine for most folks. You want more, go to Vegas. 

The law also restricts the number of casinos in the state to the number already built/being built. I don’t see how this benefits anyone other than the big casinos already in business.

As for generating money for schools, Kansas City would see none of it. In fact…

“The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released a study in early October saying that if Proposition A passes, it will not provide funding for Missouri’s largest school districts, and about one-quarter of Missouri’s public school students attend class in districts that are projected to get nothing next year from the ballot measure.” – from http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/M … on_A_(2008).

Overall, I just don’t think it’s a good idea to allow people to gamble away their life-savings so some rural schools can get what amounts to about 2% more per year in funding.

I’m thinking NO on Amendment 1, making English the official language of all governmental meetings. This is already the case – we don’t need a constitutional amendment for it.

I’ll probably vote YES on Amendment 4 regarding water control. While I don’t necessarily like that there are no specifics as to how newly non-restricted funds would be distributed, it looks like it wouldn’t be so bad to allow for increased funding for sewer projects.

Prop A – See above.

Prop B – Missouri Homecare Council – sounds good to me. Let homecare workers unionize.

Prop C – Clean Energy Initiative – If it is approved by voters, it will create a renewable electricity standard in the state. The standard would require utility companies to gradually increase their usage of renewable energy annually until 15 percent of the energy used in the state is renewable. The initiative would also require that energy rates not increase by more than one percent annually. Sounds like a YES to me.