Trading Jobs Kills Development
Most casinos attract 80% or more of their market from a 35-50 mile radius. Casinos absorb existing entertainment, restaurant and hotel business, and deplete dollars available to other retail businesses. That destroys other jobs in the trade area and eliminates their sales, employment and property tax contributions.
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Las Vegas is an entire city in the middle of the desert, that was once nothing, literally BUILT on gambling ! Kind of provides a perfect counter to your argument, don't it?