Gaming tax issued settled, new licenses not - 2004-03-31
Senate leaders said Tuesday they'll adopt gaming tax rates passed by the Iowa House last month despite the fact it could lead to a loss of up to $18 million in tax revenues to the state.
But Iverson said Senate leaders ultimately believed they had to take the House plan to get a deal with tracks.

"It will create some problems in the infrastructure budget, but we have to deal with it," Iverson said.

The House has passed a bill that would set tax rates at 22 percent of revenues for riverboat casinos, which had been paying a 20 percent rate.
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Casino connection in child's game - 2004-03-31
A children's computer game given away in packets of Nutri-Grain is connected to an American online casino.
A nine-year-old Adelaide boy was getting ready to play the motorcycle simulation on the G-rated disc with his father when the game requested that he connect to a US-based Internet casino.

When installing the game on the family computer, Mr Carey and his son were asked to click a range of "next" buttons, one of which was authorize to install a link to the casino site.
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