A bill currently being considered in the Colorado State House would prevent welfare recipients from withdrawing cash from ATM’s located at casinos, liquor stores and strip clubs. LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea! If you’re not making enough money so much so that you need government assistance, there is no reason at ALL you should be spending what you DO make on tipping strippers, gambling or buying alcohol. Kudos to the creator of this one!
(HP) – HB11-1058, sponsored by Democrat Dan Pabon of Denver, notes that it has always been illegal to access cash at ATM’s in casinos, in-state simulcast facilities, racetracks, commercial bingo facilities, gun stores, or liquor stores. The bill simply adds strip clubs to that list, and “requires the entity that administers the electronic benefits transfer service to develop a means to prevent recipients from accessing cash benefits at a prohibited location.”
Pabon told KDVR that “there has been documented proof that money has been withdrawn from ATMs in these prohibited locations,” and that the bill is simply aimed at “mak[ing] sure that taxpayer dollars are being used wisely.”
Advocates for the needy like Brad Wood with the group All Families Deserve a Chance accused the bill of “presum[ing] of guilt rather than innocence,” since there’s no proof that money accessed at the forbidden locales is actually being used for vice.
HB11-1058 has passed the House Health and Environment Committee on a 12-1 vote.
