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Posted At : January 28, 2009 10:14 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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Since, like, just everybody knows that casinos have no benefit to "the economic conditions of communities and the public at large," they've been forbidden from receiving American Recovery & Reinvestment Act money by the schoolmarmish House Appropriations Committee.* So have those other dens of iniquity and vice -- zoos, aquariums and swimming pools. Now, while it might be impolitic of casinos to belly up to the federal trough, the possibility of any doing it is presently so remote that this Congressional proscription is just prudish posturing to placate pietists on both the left and right.
And -- for the sake of argument -- why don't casinos redound to the benefit of "economic conditions of communities," might one ask? I can think of several communities -- of which Las Vegas is merely the most spectacular example -- that would just be wide places in the road had no casinos been built.
The logic of this "blue law" escapes me. After all, people go to San Diego for its zoo, Chicago for its aquarium and [your city here] for its casinos. God forbid that federal assistance go to anything that actually stimulates tourism. Can't have that, can we?
Still and all, it was prescient of New Jersey state Sen. James Whelan to limit his proposals for Atlantic City casino relief to measures that can be accomplished at the state level.
(* -- I see that longtime anti-gambling annoyance Rep. Frank Wolf [R-VA] is on the committee but, given its size, there's lots of blame to go around. Oh, and Mississippi and Nevada didn't have seats at the table when gambling got "redlined." Probably wouldn't have helped, though.)
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