“I can’t bet here? What the hell happened to this place?”
She looked at him as if he’d just stumbled down from the hills. “What happened was, they either had to put in the slots or close the doors. I don’t know where you’ve been, but the province has gone casino crazy. The government has finally found a surefire way to make money. They legalized gambling.”
Ray looked around. “Look at this place.”
“We couldn’t fight ‘em so we had to join them”, the blonde said. She gestured with both hands towards the people at the slot machines, slipping coin after coin in, going faster with each losing pull. “You know what it is, don’t you?”
“What is it?”
“A tax on the stupid.”
Brad Smith, “All Hats”, 2003, Penguin Canada.
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