EDITOR, The Tribune
Finance Minister Peter Turnquest acknowledges some difficulty in collecting Gaming Taxes from the Number Houses. I support the government in its effort to collect any and all legitimate taxes.
But, Minister, who is looking out for the consumers? You are the regulators of all Gaming in the Bahamas. We, the patrons have no idea if you are regulating the industry to ensure that the machines are not rigged in favour of the operators. When was the last time these machines were professionally calibrated? I hope I am wrong, but I have a suspicion that patrons are being “played” (pun intended) by the operators.
Regrettably, Government only appears to be concerned about collecting taxes and nobody looking out fer we!
Stop “boxing” us in, sir……play us “straight”!
BRADLEY L ARMBRISTER
Freeport
Grand Bahama
May 13, 2019
Comments
Sickened 4 years, 11 months ago
Anyone playing a game machine must know that they are fixed to give a certain payout. This is a norm for the industry. The last I heard was that most of the houses set the machines to keep about 70%. However, this can be adjusted every hour if they wish. So at Christmas time they can simply adjust the payout to say 50% and you would have a lot more winners and happy customers.
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