{"id":3017,"date":"2010-05-04T09:29:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2010-05-04T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T17:31:53","slug":"quote-of-the-day-166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-166\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1061\" title=\"Wynn-laughs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Wynn-laughs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"269\" \/>&#8220;[<strong>Steve<\/strong>] <strong>Wynn<\/strong> does business in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong>,  where Gaming Inc. pays a 6.75 percent tax rate and casino bosses bray  like thunderstruck donkeys when someone reminds them <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> casinos  pay 8 percent, <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong> casinos contribute 9[%], and <strong>Louisiana<\/strong> riverboats pay 21.5[%]. Wynn claims he is sincerely considering  moving his headquarters to <strong>Macau<\/strong>, an Asian mob-infested smuggler&#8217;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 <strong>United States<\/strong>?&#8221; &#8212; Las Vegas Review-Journal <em>columnist <strong>John L. Smith<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/it-seems-las-vegas-hasn-t-done-enough-for-steve-wynn-92037304.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wynn&#8217;s threat to take his ball and move<\/a> to <strong>China<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-166\/\">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":[23,84,62,35,32,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017"}],"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=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}