But I guess all the states in the union aren't as well governed as Maryland.
Evidence suggests easily fooled voters, although some $6.8 billion USD has flowed from Maryland casinos to the Maryland Education Trust Fund since 2010, educators on the ground are still asking when the airconditioners ordered a decade past will arrive.
* https://marylandeducators.org/where-did-the-gambling-money-g...
* https://www.mdgaming.com/marylands-casinos/revenue-reports/
It would appear there's a major leak in the Education Trust Fund.
Or they redirected funding that previously went to education to other budget items. If a trust fund is created to send $7B to education, but the government cuts their previous $10B in funding, the trust fund can be perfectly followed, while educators see a $3B cut in their funding.
The funding levels appear to be stagnating, there is no sign of any additional topping up.
It's a dishonest sleight of hand designed to fool the voters who wanted education improvements, voted for a path of action that was promised to deliver .. and did not.
It's clear how the con works, equally clear that it was a con.
Huh, why?
> It was banned most everywhere, then with no public debate on the subject, much less consensus, all of a sudden it was legal and in your face wherever you went.
They didn't change any laws, did they? So it was as legal earlier as it is now, isn't it? It's just that someone found the right loophole that was always there.
In the US, it was banned in most places until 2018. The Supreme Court invalidated the ban that had been in place until then.
The Supreme Court interprets existing law, don't they?
The opposite change was already justified, it would obviously be ridiculous to have to constantly rejustify every law in our society.
> They didn't change any laws, did they? So it was as legal earlier as it is now, isn't it? It's just that someone found the right loophole that was always there.
I do not know nor do I particularly care.
They didn't change any laws.
So we have limits on what you buy. Also you can't buy booze if you are underage. You can't buy a gun without a background check.