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1 posted on 08/06/2025 10:13:41 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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Turn it back into a desert.


2 posted on 08/06/2025 10:14:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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May not need the new train from LA.


3 posted on 08/06/2025 10:17:13 AM PDT by bobrlbob (I BELIEVE IN LAW AND ORDER. )
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Anecdote only: Canadians are increasingly choosing to boycott travel to the US.


4 posted on 08/06/2025 10:18:10 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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I think one of the reasons for the decline are, the prices in Vegas have skyrocketed and you can gamble on casino games and sports in significantly more places than years ago.

Especially Sports gambling which can be done on a Phone App or online negating any reason to go to Las Vegas.

Other than the outrageous shows that go on in Vegas, the gambling draw is diminishing.


5 posted on 08/06/2025 10:18:22 AM PDT by srmanuel
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Hell of a thing to base your economy on gambling, alcohol, and whores.
Call me old fashioned, but John Bunyan warned about Vanity Fair over 400 years ago.

6 posted on 08/06/2025 10:19:31 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Vegas priced itself out of business. You use to get great hotel rates, affordable meals and shows. It’s all shifed high end now. Nothings cheap, let alone mid-range. Maybe that model works, I don’t know. Not for me though. Not for what Vegas is.


7 posted on 08/06/2025 10:19:54 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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Young people are not into stupid life styles. Drinking. Drugging

This economy and culture is sobering in addition to any health concerns

Trump is bringing a sobering yet hopeful enthusiastic let’s get to work and fix this thing culture that young people are actually following

There is a lot of tax revenues money laundered funding drying up.

Vegas is not going to be any kind of hot spot. They could jump on board but entertainment is not escapesism as it was

Colbert is out
Stern is gone
Fallon is hanging on having Gutfeld on tomorrow
What the corps and ngos funded will be drying up.


9 posted on 08/06/2025 10:20:24 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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They need to go back to making everything cheap but even then gambling is accessible every where so you don’t need to go to Vegas to do it
Which is too bad since it was pretty fun back in the day


13 posted on 08/06/2025 10:24:16 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Some are trying to blame this on Trump, but people I know who have first-hand knowledge of Vegas say that the problem is that prices on just about everything have gone through the roof and that this goes back a year or two, at least.


14 posted on 08/06/2025 10:24:47 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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“If you want people to spend money, you treat them like royalty.”

Former mob manager at a casino and hotel in Vegas.


16 posted on 08/06/2025 10:26:05 AM PDT by crz
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Stop turning a 30 dollar room into a $100 room with all the resort and parking fees. In the rest of the country this is known as bait and switch and people don’t like it.


18 posted on 08/06/2025 10:27:05 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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Need to get Moe Green back in there.
He knew how to kick asses and make things run smooth.


19 posted on 08/06/2025 10:27:23 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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They have a Venetian /New York /Paris themed casinos in Vegas maybe they can open up a Canadian themed casino to get some canucks to visit. Have a big statue of John Candy in front. I’d check it out


20 posted on 08/06/2025 10:27:40 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Last time I was in Vegas a year or two ago, the scene had gotten noticeably sketchier than it used to be. The strip was littered with Snoop Dogg wannabe types smoking weed on the sidewalk and conducting small-time dope deals. This phenomenon did not exist at all before LV legalized cannabis. The hotel-casinos don’t want that crap inside so the users and petty dealers congregate outside making it seem like you’re walking down the street in Oakland or south central L.A.


21 posted on 08/06/2025 10:28:02 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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Why go to a country run by Democrats that empower
a minority population to run the Local “Turf”.
I don’t like Black Americans, I don’t think anybody else does either, but who is empowered by Democrats to run our cities?
All for the vote.
Most non-black Democrats do not live in the ghetto.
I’ve lived in what you would call a “Barrio”.
I could walk the streets at night, Safely,
and I’m pretty white.
No way I could do that in Compton, CA.


26 posted on 08/06/2025 10:30:19 AM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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Chinese and Asians are the biggest gamblers. Canada is not the reason for the drop.


28 posted on 08/06/2025 10:33:01 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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Mostly Democrat run state..due to Vegas


32 posted on 08/06/2025 10:33:57 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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I have several acquaintances involved with casinos.

They say the main revenue of casinos is from Asia and the middle east. Asia is hurting and the ME is hurting from oil.

They also go elsewhere (UAE) due to “better quality” of prostitutes and easier flights.

I’m not sure I care they’re gone.


33 posted on 08/06/2025 10:34:43 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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It's the prices prices prices. I went there recently. Had a decent enough time on the company credit card. Absolutely no way I could ever afford to go on my own dime, especially with my wife. Only so many people are going to pay $18 for a burger. When Emeril Lagasse has a restaurant at your hotel, you know dinner anywhere is going to run you some bucks.

When I got there, the first thing I found was a Walgreens and then proceeded to hole myself up as much as possible during the few days I was there. When I did get out, it was kind of exciting and pretty. But cost would definitely prevent me from making it a private vacation type destination. No thanks. I'll take Myrtle Beach.
35 posted on 08/06/2025 10:36:18 AM PDT by mmichaels1970 ( )
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Credit card debt is at record highs and people don’t have all that loose change jingling around in their pockets anymore.
IOW— “Money’s Too Tight To Mention” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUB0g8Vjgg&t=49s


39 posted on 08/06/2025 10:38:04 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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