Legalize gambling but outlaw payday lending?
August 18, 2009 | Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio | Comments (0)Ohio will soon join four other states that allow teenagers to gamble in full-fledged casinos or slots parlors. A column in the Plain Dealer discusses this move by Ohio state legislators..the same legislators that outlawed payday lending.
Says Rev. Gregory Hogan Sr., pastor of First Baptist Church of Barberton:
“The state is moving in a premeditated way to target the money of people least capable of incurring or financing debt. We’re targeting children. We’re telling 18-year-olds that it is OK for them to mortgage their financial futures.
“That makes the state-sponsored casinos worse than the private payday lenders,” he said.
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