Roundup President R.C. Trotter asked the board Thursday to consider recommending a $72,303 contribution from the "Why Not Dodge" sales tax fund to help the organization eliminate the deficit. The board did not act on his request but will consider it next month along with funding requests from other eligible tourist attractions....Roundup asks CFAB for financial assistance, Dodge City Globe, 10/20/2006
You just can't get away from somebody begging for taxes to cover an unprofitable business's losses, not even in Dodge. Bat Masterson probably didn't ask for a tax rebate on his Colt. And tax funding is bad business all around. Under the administration of a government, a fine business can go bad faster than Wyatt Earp could draw. Why, not long ago, in New York, the head of the OTB Corporation, a legal bookie with offices in a thousand communities, announced that she could not foresee a day when betting on horses would make money for the state. In Brooklyn, the writer engaged in conversation with a former bookie, who could not believe that anyone other than a chimpanzee could lose money on gambling on horse racing. Very suggestive about the types of people elected, as well as the people they appoint to run government programs -- someone said that in Dodge City, but it's not possible to say who. In Dodge, people still carry, and opinions are measured in lives, not endorsements from Senator Clinton.
Luther
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