From a reader: Who's against our new "economic development" plan? The kooky hippies at Boston Business Journal, that's who:One of the fundamental fallacies of the casino revenue scheme is that casinos generate new money that falls … [Read more...]
Academic and other views and studies on casino gambling
Here are some very informative, professional and researched comments on the casino matter (also excepts from US Congressional testimony on gambling "facts and stats") which may help illuminate this issue. Those who are for casino … [Read more...]
Fun with argument-by-analogy
In all the casino madness we're having here, I keep hearing one pro-casino argument again and again. Well, actually, it's an anti-anti-casino argument: I guess I just don't understand casino opposition. The idea that poor … [Read more...]
Gambling with the Nature of Our Children’s Future…
How you achieve what you want is inevitably characterized by what you did to get it. Means not only don't justify ends but, as human beings, our means become part of our ends. And the means and … [Read more...]
Casino hot-potato
As Dan Kennedy mentioned below, Gov. Patrick seems more inclined to hand the casino issue off to the legislature, where it faces a dubious future. Reports Peter Kenney of Cape Cod Today:Gov. Deval Patrick is unlikely to endorse casino … [Read more...]
Governor Patrick, Please Oppose Casino Gambling
Another immediate cost of casino gambling is the potential growth of gambling addiction. If it is true, as Rep. Dan Bosley wrote in May, that most casino customers come from within a 50 mile radius, then casinos in Middleborough and … [Read more...]
$100 million?
The Weekly Dig does more, uh, digging, and discovers that a casino in Middleborough is not exactly the cash bonanza it's made out to be: $100 million. A million here, a million there, and sooner or later you're talking real money. … [Read more...]
Must-Read: Powerful op-ed against gambling
This op-ed on gambling says everything that I could say, and a lot I couldn't. David D'Alessandro's dad was a gambling addict who took loans from, and was terrorized by, loan sharks to feed his addiction.Not every person who uses slot … [Read more...]
Globe looks to Connecticut for gambling impact
In preparation for next week's extravaganza down in Middleborough, the Globe ran an interesting article today on the impact seen in small Connecticut towns when Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun arrived, and also sampled some views in … [Read more...]
Meals taxes vs. Casinos
Massachusetts Liberal sees casino gambling in our future, especially in light of the tight fiscal situation, declining lottery revenue and legislative resistance to the local option meals tax.Well, I don't like the idea of casino gambling … [Read more...]
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