{"id":13648,"date":"2014-05-27T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=13648"},"modified":"2014-05-27T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:00:34","slug":"quote-of-the-day-561","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-561\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064-150x109.gif\" alt=\"Pennsylvania 064\" width=\"150\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064-150x109.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064-300x219.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064.gif 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong> charges the highest tax rate on slot machine revenue in the country \u2014 about 55 percent \u2014 meaning the state has been racking up tax proceeds like T-shirt sales at a rock concert. But the golden age of gambling growth may have peaked in the Keystone State, and casinos will have to look for new ways to attract guests just to hold their own. Homeowners looking to gaming for property tax relief, take note: This is about as good as it\u2019s going to get.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Howard Frank<\/strong>, in the <strong>Pocono Record<\/strong>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/cdcgamingreports.com\/commentaries\/in-troubling-times-casinos-are-looking-for-a-little-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">casino-revenue stagnation<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pennsylvania charges the highest tax rate on slot machine revenue in the country \u2014 about 55 percent \u2014 meaning the state has been racking up tax proceeds like T-shirt sales at a rock concert. But the golden age of gambling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-561\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13649,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648\/revisions\/13649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}