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I am sure by now that every Australian knows about the ruck a bunch of geriatrics are putting up about the Poker Machine Tax and how bad it is. There is an entire website dedicated to exposing “the real facts” about the tax. These assholes want us to believe that the tax is bad because of reasons like job loss and other crap like that. I think not. I don’t care what their study says, they clearly underestimate the stupidity of humans if they think people will stop using Poker Machines because they cost a little more. Not to mention if people did stop using them it would probably so a lot more good than harm - perhaps pubs and clubs would be forced to make money without exploiting peoples gambling.

Personally I think that we should tax the losers who throw their cash into these machines and spend the money on education and other worthwhile causes. Maybe we could even give the money back to the people it was taken from by improving the aged health system or creating an all new “wankers anonymous” for losers with nothing better to do than waste money on the “Pokies!”

The fact of the matter is that Poker Machines are designed for one purpose: to take money from people. One of my friends had an uncle who wrote various programs for Poker Machines that tested their operating efficiency and other crap like that. He told me that the most popular Poker Machines have less than a 1 in 4 million chance of winning the jackpot and some have around 1 in 10 million chance. Obviously these are unofficial and I could get in trouble for this, so don’t go quoting me.

Just remember: People are stupid and there will always be a call for wasting money, ruining healthy bodies and various other stupid things in this world. A little bit of tax won’t change much, people still spend about $15 for a packet of cigarettes every other day.