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.
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.
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.