Pokies cash cow revealed
February 14, 2006 on 2:23 am | In Slot machine articles online |Another day, another interesting revelation in the Sydney Newspaper the Daily Telegraph:
“…the top 25 licensed clubs in NSW collectively earned more than $1 billion in pre-tax profits in the 2005 fiscal year…”
and
“the NSW Government … skims off close to $1 billion a year in pokie taxes”
Is it any wonder the average player has little chance of winning when playing the pokies at their local venue? The NSW government is reaching its hand into players pockets in ever greater amounts.
There are over 100,000 slot machines in New South Wales - an incredible number by any standard. Assuming a slot machine is around 48cm wide, if you lined all of those pokies up side by side, they would stretch for almost 50 kilometres (around 30 miles).
To keep attention focussed on the issue, we’ve christened a new cow, Mooola the pokies cash cow. Every time you go to play the pokies, think of just what you’re donating to your government.
Think of Mooola the pokies cash cow, then think of what else you could be spending the money on. Lobby your government to reduce their steep pokies taxes. Stop feeding the cow!
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is it just me, or if you watch Mooola for an extended period of time do you also drift off to a dreamlike state where everything is happy and the worries of the world are non existent
Comment by Status — February 14, 2006 #
Erm, no, its just you.
Comment by Adam — February 14, 2006 #