We were made all sorts of promises when casinos were legalized in Pennsylvania. So much money would come rolling in that property taxes could be slashed substantially.
Yeah. THAT didn’t happen.
And there is an increase in crime that comes with gaming. A friend of a friend who had MS was robbed of $43,000 by a home health aide who had become addicted to casino gaming.
Don’t to it, Virginia.
Rat solution to unemployment & improving the local economy!
Vice!
I am not a prude and not against gambling per se. People can throw their money away on whatever they see fit. However I do find it irritating that politicians find that playing to people’s weaknesses is superior to doing something like getting government out of the economy!
Later in Virginia you will be seeing a proliferation of Gamblers Anonymous signs on bill boards along side roadways offering their services. The average Virginian will wonder how that became a problem?
I just can't get that mad at my money.
In Missouri, the hook was “riverboat gambling”. Gambling would only occur while the boats were sailing on the river, thus bringing back the ‘romance’ of the river boats and limiting the time gamblers could gamble.
After a few years the owners of the riverboats complained they couldn’t operate when the rivers were at flood state (virtually every year) and there was the issue of safety. So the casinos were allowed to permanently dock their boats.
Flooding still cut into business and ‘boats’ limited floor space for tables and machines, so casinos could be built on dry land—as long as river water was near it. The small casino in Cape Girardeau is on the dry side of the flood wall, but if you’re on the second floor, you can in fact see the Mississippi.
Of course, the democrats are all in favor of gambling, but then, love to claim it hurts the poor and minorities the most.
Gambling and drugs. Next prostitution. Gov’t looks for mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money.
Good maybe VA will build some decent highway
rest areas /s