You cannot survive when the supporting infrastructure and its population are recipients and not producers. I’ve been to AC numerous times and only once did I ever leave the casino to go to a restaurant. I never even stopped to fill up my gas tank. That is not the exception, that is the rule.
You can not put all your eggs in one basket. That a casino will cure all that ails AC. AC probably did nothing to attract new businesses to expand the tax base. Without private jobs outside the casinos, you are doomed to failure.
What AC should do as Bernie would do is give free money to everyone. Start a free university, free health care for all. Free food and minimum walking around dollars for all. Free, free, free equals success for all. Let Bernie do it. Rather than Weekend with Bernie its would be Atlantic City with Bernie. They both end the same way. Both Bernie and AC are dead Monday morning.