{"id":248,"date":"2006-07-04T05:48:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=248"},"modified":"2011-11-04T21:43:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:43:10","slug":"atlantic-city-casinos-ordered-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/atlantic-city-casinos-ordered-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic City Casinos Ordered Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shutdown of New Jersey&#8217;s government by Governor Jon Corzine means that Atlantic City&#8217;s casinos must close. The state has no budget, as an agreement cannot be reached on the governor&#8217;s proposed 1% sales tax increase. The courts have ruled that the 12 casinos must stop taking bets as of 8:00am Wednesday because they cannot operate without state gambling monitors who are furloughed as part of the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The governor is proposing a 1% sales tax increase (moving from 6% to 7%) in order to help close a $4.5 billion budget deficit. That increase would cost the average New Jersey family about $275 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Since a budget cannot be adopted, the government has been shut down and all non-essential workers have been furloughed. The only essential employees still working are state police, prison guards, child welfare workers, and some administration staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shutdown of New Jersey&#8217;s government by Governor Jon Corzine means that Atlantic City&#8217;s casinos must close. The state has no budget, as an agreement cannot be reached on the governor&#8217;s proposed 1% sales tax increase. The courts have ruled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-40","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}