A fair gambling bill

Iron range legislators are pushing a bill that would allow video slots in bars. This would supposedly add $350 million a year to the state's budget, while helping small bar owners too.

I am not gung-ho about this bill, but I think it is refreshingly honest, something many gambling proposals have not been. This bill would expand gambling, no doubt about it, and everybody knows it. This bill would also treat everybody fairly, instead of helping one group as opposed to another. Like it or not, at least this isn't some stealth attempt to change how gambling works in the state of Minnesota: everything is plain as day. Now, if other gambling proposals looked like this, we could have an honest debate.