Gambling will not help TX. I left a pro gambling state. Gambling doesn’t produce any money at all.
It helps the pro gambling states next to the ones who ban it. I’m from SW Louisiana not far from Texas where there are several casinos. Most of the people who go there are Texans and taxes on those casinos pretty much funded my education :)
Gamblers are going to gamble, all Texas is doing is sending its money out of state.
Okay, I'll be opened minded about this. Tell me how those 92 texas vehicles (customers) (prob. every day) spending their money and taxes in Texas rather than Louisiana won't help our economy. Then add the employment.
Not saying you are wrong, and maybe I am not seeing something, but common sense would say that tax and revenues are leaving our state and are being added to theirs.
Gambling doesn’t produce any money at all.
It may not produce any money at all........ but it damn sure takes a hell of a lot of money out of the state to adjioning states where casino gambling is legal.
It took until 1987 to get voter approval of pari mutuel betting in one of the state with its large horse industry.