{"id":4046,"date":"2010-07-14T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2010-07-14T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:24:54","slug":"quote-of-the-day-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4047\" title=\"Slot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Slot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Slot.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Slot-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/>&#8220;<strong>Nevada<\/strong> itself would love to be receiving more revenue from casino  gaming, but there&#8217;s precious little its legislators or governor can do  to expand gambling in the state, save thinking good thoughts (although  slot route operators would likely settle for a repeal of the tavern  smoking ban). It&#8217;s the market, not the government, that&#8217;s effectively  regulating the size of our industry &#8230; Given this perspective, it should be clear that doubling, or even  quadrupling, the size of the industry [nationally] won&#8217;t make much of a difference;  even if legislatures permitted it, there just isn&#8217;t enough gambling to  go around.&#8221; &#8212;<em> <strong>David G. Schwartz<\/strong>, director of UNLV&#8217;s <strong>Center for Gaming Research<\/strong> saying things politicians and self-cannibalizing casino companies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvbusinesspress.com\/articles\/2010\/07\/12\/opinion\/columnists\/schwartz\/iq_36811485.txt\" target=\"_blank\">need &#8212; but don&#8217;t want &#8212; to hear<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nevada itself would love to be receiving more revenue from casino gaming, but there&#8217;s precious little its legislators or governor can do to expand gambling in the state, save thinking good thoughts (although slot route operators would likely settle for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-34\/\">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":[14,33,25,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046"}],"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=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}