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Originally Posted by jrc
Outside of Nevada and Atlantic City, gambling is usually a point destanation. When you put in Foxwoods/Moheagan Sun type gambling, everything else is second fiddle. Look at those casinos, there are very few other attractions anywhere near them. Not even very many hotels outside the attached one.
If you put one at the dog track, the dog track would quickly find that making money with slot machines is easier than dogs. Same thing with the Weirs. This might be an improvement, but it will destroy what's there.
Personally I think well regulated gambling should be legal throughout the the state. But setting up special gambling locations is a bad idea.
The sillyness of the current gambling laws strikes me every time I go in the arcades on Weirs beach. They have slot machines, but since gambling is illegal, you must lose every time you play. At least with real slot machines, once in a while you win.
The state will let you put $100 in a slot machine to win a $5 stuffed animal, but if you have a chance to win the $100 back that's illegal?
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South Carolina removed all 34,000 (double the amount that Nevada has !!!) slot machines throughout the state in 2000 after 14 years. South Carolina felt it was ruining the quality of life in the state. I'm not anti-gambling, but I don't want to see NH go the way of South Carolina. One, state-controlled mega-plex resort type casino at exit 1 replacing Rockingham Park would keep the lid on the industry without machines in every little store in the state.
Everyone should read about what happened to the quality of life in South Carolina when this happened. They called it video crack ! My guess is we are going to get something in the way of gambling cause the Democrats have run this budget into a ditch with 17.5% increses......and anything short of a broad-based tax is not going to pull us out of what some people are saying is a $250 million dollar hole.
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