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Originally Posted by BigV
re: casinos "... don't produce anything"
are you similarly down on other entertainment venues?
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No I'm not. Hollywood produces movies. Theaters produce shows. And so on. You don't get many theater addicts. You don't have cash machines in theaters so theatergoers can drain their accounts to see more shows.
I get what you are saying. It's possible for a person with a lot of self control to go into a casino and lose only a set amount of money, but not everyone is able to do that. Calling a casino entertainment is a marketing ploy to disguise what they really are.
The fact that casinos are normally situated so they can attract as many out of state patrons as possible says it all. If they were healthy for the economy, they would be placed in local areas so they could generate wealth for the local economy. You want to take money from the person who lives somewhere else, because that shifts the cost of casinos onto someone else while you retain the profits.