HB 2843 by Kuempel: Growing Government and Expanding Corporate Welfare

HB 2843 is the enabling legislation for HJR 155. HB 2843 ultimately seeks to expand casino gambling in Texas. among other provisions. All done under the guise of economic development, HB 2843 seeks to grow the government by creating an entirely new bureaucratic entity to oversee the expansion. HB 2843 also creates a “limited number of resorts” by which this expansion of casino gambling and other provisions can take place, inevitably resulting in the government picking winners over losers, continuing to set yet another bad precedent. Expanding state power to regulate gambling, which almost always hurts the poorest Texans and those with addictions, continues to set a bad precedent and is not the proper role of government. TFR opposes HB 2843.