Letter to the editor – on the government’s voting text
First, the government will address the income tax of 117 million since 2019, the jobs, the investments and orders and references to the non-profit and charitable projects of the casinos. Although only a fraction of the rich profits go to charitable projects, the casinos mutate into charitable organizations in the government text. Then WILL be pointed out the targeted measures that the government is taking to reduce the attractiveness of the casino market. Despite this, we now have five casinos and two in the pipeline. The cross-border player protection mentioned can only come into force in 2024. It was created to counteract the initiative. Who believes that the often promised player protection will actually come into force in 2024? I find the argument hair-raising that it is better and more responsible to regulate the offer instead of leaving the players to the uncontrolled market, who would use foreign or illegal offers if casinos were banned. Is the casino offer even a social institution? The moratorium will not be of much use and is also an intervention in the liberal economic policy that is invoked at the end of the text. A contradiction. With the legislature unable to draft a good casino law, a civil society group was left with a constitutional initiative as the only way out. I think a casino ban in the constitution is the lesser of two evils.
Helen Marxer,
Floraweg 19, Vaduz