Quote of the Day

“[Steve] Wynn does business in Las Vegas, where Gaming Inc. pays a 6.75 percent tax rate and casino bosses bray like thunderstruck donkeys when someone reminds them Mississippi casinos pay 8 percent, Atlantic City casinos contribute 9[%], and Louisiana riverboats pay 21.5[%]. Wynn claims he is sincerely considering moving his headquarters to Macau, an Asian mob-infested smuggler’s paradise ruled by a communist government where casinos pay an aggregate 40 percent tax rate. This is the atmosphere he says is less oppressive than the United States?” — Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith on Wynn’s threat to take his ball and move to China.