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Oregon has one of the highest state income taxes (which makes for bursty and unreliable revenue) but capped property taxes and no sales, so a lot of the budget relies on video poker, alcohol, and now marijuana sales.

>tfw you notice that some of the games make the most hackneyed \u201casian\u201d appeal

but you know this industry was data-driven before any other, you read The Good Earth, you know gambling is the traditional vice of the sinosphere, you notice the subtle signs of the upstairs dens on 82nd

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(I pick games by reading the odds and taking 1:1.5 at most; the obsolete consoles have games around 1.15-2.3, the newer flashier ones can go to like 4.5)

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