1. Gaming is not economic development—it’s revenue development for politicians who want more money to buy votes.
2. The few jobs that gaming creates are low-paying, no-benefit jobs: dealers, bartenders, and cocktail waitresses, pawn shops, liquor stores, check cashing, pot shops, slum motels.
3. Gaming is a giant suction pump that removes cash from the local economy and pipes it elsewhere.
4. Gaming attracts the homeless, drunks, prostitutes, drugs, gangs and promotes every form of illegal behavior including rape, murder, armed robbery, drug trafficing, prostitution, human trafficing, and car theft.
5. Gaming does not stimulate ANY spinoff development in the area, since ALL economic activity is conducted inside the walls of the casinos: retail, restaurants, gift shops, entertainment—EVERYTHING. The streets become dingy, dirty and the storefronts become liquor stores and pawn shops.
6. Gaming enriches politicians and the worst elelments of society.
7. My objection is strictly on a cost/benefit, economic basis: GAMING IS NOT WORTH THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS!!!
You are delusional....are you a politician....just spew assertions out with nothing to back them up....tell your nonsense to the Indian tribes in Oklahoma....