There's a lesson here. As the economy tanks, people see more virtue in taxing vice than in prohibiting it.
This is a politican’s payoff to a gamboling donar. The vice tax during a recession is nothing to write home about. These schemes expanded when the economy was booming.
Gamboling brings in crime galore.
“As the economy tanks, people see more virtue in taxing vice than in prohibiting it.”
NJ’s casinos are taking a beating, between the economy and having to compete with PA casinos (where many of the original suckers, I mean customers, came from. Even in good times, the casinos made a lot of money, and a lot was paid into Atlantic City coffers, but the place was still a toilet (with pawn shops and prostitutes a block or two from all that money being p!ssed away).
They are looking at casinos in the Catskills because even that would be a step up from the abandoned camps and rust-belt towns throughout the region.