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Feb 20, 2008 8:51 am US/Eastern
Poker Machine Money Could Replace Drink Tax
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
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Allegheny County Dan Onorato's 2008 budget calls for 200 layoffs and a 10 percent poured drink tax.
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Just seven weeks into Allegheny County's new 10-percent drink tax County Chief Executive Dan Onorato is looking at other alternatives to the unpopular tax.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says Onorato is now considering legalizing poker machines and other gambling devices in bars and taverns to create revenue that could replace the drink tax.
Onorato has been under fire from local business owners who say the tax is cutting into their profits.
The drink tax and a $2 daily rental car tax began on January 1 to raise $30 million a year to subsidize the county's transit agency.
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