Posted on 04/16/2021 6:50:40 PM PDT by The Houston Courant
America’s largest casino company launched a TV and radio ad blitz last night aiming to stoke Texans’ FOMO—their fear of missing out.
“Every year,” one ad explains, “Texans spend billions of tourism and gambling dollars at casinos in Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico—billions that could be staying here.” Las Vegas Sands, the corporation funding the campaign, wants state lawmakers to put a measure legalizing casino gambling on the election ballot in November. The bill under consideration would permit construction of one hotel casino in each of the state’s four largest urban areas.
The Lone Star State does have some of the most restrictive gambling laws in the U.S. It has no casinos, save a few small tribal establishments. States with comparable regulations include Alaska, Utah, and Tennessee.
Those states nearly rival Texas in another regard: all have booming economies with standout rates of GDP growth in the last quarter of 2020. Texas, of course, tops them all with a 7.5 percent growth rate.
Also hello HG.
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Reno is dead. Californians can now stay home for that reason. Supposedly it was for the schools-children.
Learn from Nevada, Texas:
ACCEPT CASINOS.
I’m tired of having to drive all the way to Louisiana to get my Blackjack fix at Coushata.
In PA under Rendell the casinos were supposed to be like public companies. Except they were all pre bought by Judges and construction companies.
I reside here in Louisiana about 45-60 minutes from both New Orleans(a true s___hole) and the Casinos over in Mississippi ....(another s___hole) .....casinos do NOTHING but bring crime drugs and deviants ..... New Orleans is truly a den of inequity and I say this as a sinner ....I have no right judging anyone ....but after residing here for about 4 plus years and never been a gambling type(former beer drinker big time).... but I hope Texas is smart enough to keep casinos out....they have enough on thier plate as it is.
The other issue is that gambling is a “fixed pie.” There are only so many people who gamble. When people have lots of options to gamble no casino makes money. If you have only a few places it works because the cash is there to keep everything nice, clean and above board. When the margins fall, the crime comes in.
Winstar is surely dumping huge bucks into lobbying against this bill.
Chinese casinos go bankrupt
When our communist governor whitler ordered the second lockdown, the indian casinos all said screw you and stayed open.
Casinos, like state lotteries, only add to out of control tax and spending.
As we all know, lotteries are a tax on stupid people. Casinos are even worse.
In Milwaukee at the local casino it is not uncommon to see people well under the age of 30 betting 5-10K per night. You know that they are not making 200-300K per year to have that kind of legal disposable income. Big city casinos serve as a way of laundering dirty money.
Why drive then? Just mail $100 to the state of Louisiana each week and save yourself the trouble.
That’s a horrid drive, for a sub par casino.
This push happens every so many years, in Texas.
So far, no sale. Or, should I say dice?
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I’m surprised that the state of Maryland legalized gambling, they have them in Baltimore and National Harbor (just outside of Washington, D.C.). It impacts the low income population because they are more likely to be “addicted” to gambling while the wealthy folks have the resources to afford gambling as a luxury.
New Orleans was a s**thole long before they got casinos, the casinos had nothing to do with it. The Mississippi gulf coast is nicer now than it was before the casinos. I'm not pro or against casinos, gambling does nothing for me and I almost never set foot inside one of them. That being said, the notion that they bring crime and degeneracy is BS, all they bring is busloads of greyhairs for whom the idea of a big night is rolling their oxygen bottle down to the slot machine. If your place is a s**thole casinos aren't going to change that one way or another.
I do neither and am very ANTI casino in Texas.
I am ANTI casino everywhere, but USA is (WAS) a free country, so we all get to make our own choices (or at least used to).
Let’r rip, Humble!
Sure thing. We need weed, too. Everybody’s doing it, doing it, doing it. Picking’ their nose and chewing it, chewing it.
In Milwaukee at the local casino.....
Yea I have been at that Milwaukee casino and the majority of the gamblers look like they don’t have a pot to piss in.
As far as money laundering, casinos are participating in scrutinizing their customers. The natives want to stay on good terms with the state.
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