| Deuce91,
I won't take your bet. Yor are right.
(IMO) Boot Hill doesn't have the upfront money needed to operate the casino outright. Alot of false promotion will be presented to make this whole gambling idea look good.
I spoke with a man from Cripple Creek, CO. He told me that the family based tourism in their community is struggling more than ever since the gambling industry moved in. I don't know, but I suspect that will happen here in Dodge also.
The following commentary was submitted by Wichita-area Republican state Reps. Joe McLeland, Don Myers, Steve Brunk, Mario Goico, Brenda Landwehr, Ted Powers and Dick Kelsey.
"And if legislators felt gambling revenues were so important to Kansas, then wasn't 22 percent a paltry cut and a poorly crafted deal compared with other states' takes? (Indiana gets 30 percent, Illinois 50 percent, Pennsylvania 52 percent, Rhode Island 60 percent and Michigan 61 percent.)
Kansas' pro-gambling politicians must have looked like easy marks to the gambling industry. They negotiated a deal that gives Kansas less than a third of its "own" casino profits -- with 22 percent locked in for the next 15 years.
Which prompts the question: Why would 22 percent look so good to politicians if there wasn't something more personally appealing in the process? Is this government-backed gambling-monopoly-for-billionaires a new hip way to be on the public dole? Or just good, old-fashioned political corruption?"  |