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Originally Posted by bisket
The money for sports in MD doesn't necessarily come from tax payers. The money comes from taxing marijuana, gambling, and the events themselves. So essentially it's the choice of the people taking part in those activities to pay for them. MD is building the track, but afterwards they will collect taxes to pay for it. Racing will have to pay for itself as well. It sounds like the structure we're discussing is already in place at Delmar. So nothing will have to change, it'll just take a bigger role in racing.
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Respectfully, would those funds not be available for other things if not for sports funding or was the original intention to provide for sports?