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Old 04-16-2012, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Collierville, TN
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Gambling takes away money that could be used for better things. You have a lot more personal bankrupcies and other social problems when gambling is legalized. Sure, some people get jobs, but they are usually not local people. Tunica's unemployment rate is about as high now as it was before the casinos came.
I remember when the lottery was legalized in Tennessee. It was said the money would go to fund education. Now it's not enough and the state wants more money. The same thing has happened in Mississippi. Our annual budget went up a lot after casino gambling was legalized. Now the boom is over and the state wants more money. Gambling impoverishes a lot more people than it makes rich. When will people wise up?

God bless,

CKB
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Old 04-16-2012, 06:20 PM
 
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Gambling takes away money that could be used for better things. You have a lot more personal bankrupcies and other social problems when gambling is legalized. Sure, some people get jobs, but they are usually not local people. Tunica's unemployment rate is about as high now as it was before the casinos came.
I remember when the lottery was legalized in Tennessee. It was said the money would go to fund education. Now it's not enough and the state wants more money. The same thing has happened in Mississippi. Our annual budget went up a lot after casino gambling was legalized. Now the boom is over and the state wants more money. Gambling impoverishes a lot more people than it makes rich. When will people wise up?

God bless,

CKB
I'll add a few more just to outdo ColliervilleMom (and because I completely, totally agree with you)...

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Old 04-16-2012, 09:28 PM
 
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I'll add a few more just to outdo ColliervilleMom (and because I completely, totally agree with you)...


But if TN does not open one, MS pours money from our state treasury (they gain gaming taxes what Memphian gaming there).
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Old 04-17-2012, 08:57 AM
 
Location: Mississippi Delta!
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But if TN does not open one, MS pours money from our state treasury (they gain gaming taxes what Memphian gaming there).
You already have a lottery for people to blow their money on. Do you want casinos to make it worse?

More and more states have "cashed in" on the casino business as a way to gain revenue. It is essentially taxation by other means, but it is typically one that hits the poorest people first. If you were to go to a Tunica casino and ask around, you would probably find that many people live off of government checks. There are casinos in Greenville, MS that feed mainly off of the local population, which is mostly poor.

I have lived in the Mississippi Delta most of my life. I first supported legalized gambling for the jobs it promised to create and the extra money it brought in. But it is the poor who stand to lose the most from it. I don't think it is a coincidence that check-cashing and car title loan businesses have boomed since the casinos came. Have any of you used these business and know what kind of interest they charge? Lots of people have lost what little they have pursuing the dream of quick riches. How many people have gone bankrupt? How many marriages have broken up? How many suicides have happened because of people losing their money and their livelihoods?

If you are poor, you can do better things with your money than blow it on some very remote chance you will win the lottery or hit it big in the casinos.

God bless,

CKB
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Old 04-17-2012, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Brentwood, Tennessee
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But if TN does not open one, MS pours money from our state treasury (they gain gaming taxes what Memphian gaming there).
LET THEM HAVE IT. VOTERS HAVE TOLD THEIR REPS THEY DON'T WANT CASINOS HERE.

Tennessee must focus on LEGITIMATE revenue sources. Last year Nashville ranked 4th in the US in job creation.

Tennessee must REMAIN FOCUSED on attracting corporations that will employ hundreds and thousands (who will then spend hundreds of thousands in sales and property taxes), not throw it toward casinos that bring the problems already mentioned here.

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Old 04-17-2012, 02:44 PM
 
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i live in the market area served by greenville ms. i watched the last ten years or so of gambling boats take their toll on the area and not in a good way.

i know of bankrupt lives, marriages and businesses from losses at these so called casinos. however, i do not know of a single person that won enough money to change anything in their life.

by the way, i believed all the hype put out before they opened, but i can tell you for a fact, it is just marketing.
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Old 04-18-2012, 04:43 AM
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Gambling takes away money that could be used for better things. You have a lot more personal bankrupcies and other social problems when gambling is legalized. Sure, some people get jobs, but they are usually not local people. Tunica's unemployment rate is about as high now as it was before the casinos came.

I remember when the lottery was legalized in Tennessee. It was said the money would go to fund education. Now it's not enough and the state wants more money. The same thing has happened in Mississippi. Our annual budget went up a lot after casino gambling was legalized. Now the boom is over and the state wants more money. Gambling impoverishes a lot more people than it makes rich. When will people wise up?

God bless,

CKB
What he said.
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Old 04-19-2012, 12:28 AM
 
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LET THEM HAVE IT. VOTERS HAVE TOLD THEIR REPS THEY DON'T WANT CASINOS HERE.

Tennessee must focus on LEGITIMATE revenue sources. Last year Nashville ranked 4th in the US in job creation.

Tennessee must REMAIN FOCUSED on attracting corporations that will employ hundreds and thousands (who will then spend hundreds of thousands in sales and property taxes), not throw it toward casinos that bring the problems already mentioned here.


I believe that Casino tax is also a "Legitimate" resource, it is a legal stuff and no mafia in it (Well, I do not know, but I think it is a clean transaction).

For attracting corporation, i got to say that in the recent decade, there is only one major company headquarter relocate to Memphis from other state, that is International Paper. Many recent deals are base on Tax money to attract them to there (Electrolux GOT OVER 100MILLION) from State.
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Old 04-19-2012, 06:59 AM
 
Location: East Memphis
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I believe that Casino tax is also a "Legitimate" resource, it is a legal stuff and no mafia in it (Well, I do not know, but I think it is a clean transaction).

For attracting corporation, i got to say that in the recent decade, there is only one major company headquarter relocate to Memphis from other state, that is International Paper. Many recent deals are base on Tax money to attract them to there (Electrolux GOT OVER 100MILLION) from State.

Service Master?
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Old 04-19-2012, 08:48 AM
 
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Service Master?
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Pinnacle Airlines consolidated offices to H.Q. downtown. (600 employees)
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