Just returned from my local Publix. While exiting

[cachukis]

I was greeted by a man asking me to sign a petition. I asked, for what. He told me it was to authorize taxation on gambling wins. Who could argue that? Me. I know that the amendment is to expand sports gambling here in Florida to basically allow expansion to go outside the bounds of Tribal agreements. Doral, comes to mind.
There were seven or eight men in this fairly small parking lot, doing the same. I bet it is happening elsewhere tonight in Florida to get this amendment on the ballot.
It would appear to me that the organization behind this effort has other fingers on buttons.
We don't think as transactionally as do the monied people.
They are preying with a well rehearsed spiel, on the unsuspecting.
If you sign the petition for what you think it's for, you are more than likely to vote for it.

[Phoenix61]

1. They are all over and either truly don't know

what the petition is for or just want to get signatures. One of them told me it was to raise teachers salaries.

[Ocelot II]

2. Gambling wins are already taxable, at least by the feds.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc419 So you're probably right that the petition is really about something else..

[Sanity Claws]

3. That's right.

Something is off about that petition.
BTW, I actually won $1800 at a race track way back in the 1980s. I had to file a tax form declaring my deductions in order to collect the money. I also had to use a special form when I filed my return the next year.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Not A Gambler

But, even I have seen those lines on the 1040. I'm never going to need them, but I know they're there!
Are gambling wins not taxed in Florida? There are here in Illinois. It's on IL-1040. I believe there's a separate schedule for winnings or losses generated in other states.