Posted on 01/23/2019 9:08:55 AM PST by C19fan
bbb….bbbbu…...bbb…...bbbut Ed Rendell told us that if we legalized casinos in Pennsylvania the revenue would come rolling in in such copious amounts that they could do away with our property taxes.
The generation of gamblers is dying. Fewer buses of senior citizens going fromTexas to Louisiana’s casinos. The younger generation is either too broke to gamble with the retirement home crowd, or they are more interested in buying electronic toys. Cash-starved states should not blow their last dollars on developing casinos for the Mafia.
The surrounding municipalities really did not directly gain from the Indian Casinos in CT in the form of tax revenue. Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun are on reservations the size of a postage stamp. The surrounding towns have had to update all the roads going into the reservations with no direct tax benefit from the casino proceeds.
What they have benefitted from is the economic expansion around tiny reservations like Mohegan Sun. The hotel there is beautiful. The casinos are set up in a indoor mall arrangement with 30+ restaurants and 20+ shops. Its hotel is also about $350+/night on the weekend. Therefore, there are all the new cheaper hotels that have been built within a mile or two. Mohegan also has a large arena that can seat about 8K people. They get all the headliners for shows. Most people do not stay at the casino because it is too expensive. When I have visited, we stayed about 10 miles away in Mystic, CT right on the water. FYI, eastern CT is very pretty for the most part and fairly rural. That is why most people from NYC drive to CT instead of Atlantic City to gamble.
No, it’s near three-nica. Actually, it’s not near anything!
apparently no one at the la slimes has ever bothered to look at an atlas (or online map). tunica is well over 300 miles from mississippi delta.
I don’t know any millennials that enjoy casinos.Even when stuck on cruise ships the millennials don’t go to the casinos.
Isn’t the Dixie Mafia hiring?
“Dog racing” “on a single horse”
Dog jockeys?
I’d go there just for the show.
Dogs wearing those jockey goggles.
I’d be there all day.
Actually, Tunica is a pretty cool place if you show horses. They have a really nice show arena complex that hosts a lot of shows through the year. Plus it has the best home style restaurant in the world, The Blue and White.
The entirety of the western half of the State of Mississippi is considered “Delta” country.
The “Delta” is not really the river delta, it’s a big triangle of glacial outwash that stretches all the way practically to Memphis, and Tunica is right in it.
OOPS
Mississippi Delta is not the same as the Mississippi River Delta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Delta
The real reason is West Memphis, Arkansas, (right across the MS River from downtown Memphis, a five-minute drive) has tons of slot machines and even dog racing. The parking lot there stays packed year round. No reason anymore for Memphis folks (and tourists) to drive down to Tunica.
Tunica and the Clarksdale area have some of the best cotton land you’ll ever see (soybeans too, of course). They should have just let folks be instead of trying to turn Tunica into a small Las Vegas. What some people call progress is not always progress.
Thanx for the article. 20 years ago I was traveling with an architect to identify several projects. We wanted to build 100 homes in Tunica and the funding evaporated.
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