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I'm asking you to show me where this helps the states economy.

Our neighboring states are some of the poorest states, bad economy states in the union. So how has it helped them?

This is a total straw-man.

Mississippi's economy was shitty waaaay before casinos. Casinos don't solve all of their economy's problems. Nobody has claimed that, nor has anybody claimed it will do that for Arkansas.

Casinos certainly have helped them, if you consider billions of dollars into the local and state economy to be a good thing.

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In 20 years since that uncertain first roll of the dice, the numbers tell the story. The 30 commercial casinos on the Gulf Coast and along the Mississippi River have created thousands of jobs and generated billions of dollars in revenue. According to the annual report by the Mississippi Casino Operators Association, last year the gaming industry accounted for $4.26 billion in direct economic activity, 25,000 jobs and 20 million visits from out-of-state patrons.

And the casino tax only generated over $250 million in revenue for the state of Mississippi in 2013.

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So your position is "it won't fix our problems, it hasn't for Mississippi!"

It has generated a shitload of tourism and a shitload of tax revenue. A lot of those tourist dollars and tax revenue directly from the casinos (not counting hotel, gas, food taxes paid by the 20 million out of state visits per year) come from Arkansas.

I can't explain it any simpler than that. If you have other objections to casino gambling, then base your argument around those. Your current argument falls flat on its face.

This post was edited on 2/9/14 at 12:11 pm