Casinos are a Bad Idea

Because of Pennsylvania law and the Pennsylvania Gaming Board have spent a lot of time deciding where the slot machines and their casinos should end up. However, many feel that they might have spent a little more time in the details. There is a feeling of incompleteness for many as they felt table games should have been included in the casinos. Many say that slot machines just aren’t enough to bring in tourists.

There will be the initial group that comes to see what all the fuss is about, but for the most part, anyone who has a car and is in the general vicinity might as well just go for an hour drive and get all of the perks that the Atlantic City casinos have – including table games.

Both Foxwoods and SugarHouse are going to be bringing in slot machines, but they are not allowed to bring in table games - literally thousands of slot machines without a table in sight. It isn’t the casinos’ fault, they wanted table games, they just aren’t allowed them. Many are concerned that the presentations that they gave talking about all the “economic value” that they are going to bring in will not actually happen without the table games.

SugarHouse has said that they will bring in 1,300 jobs – but how is that possible? They said they will also bring in $100 million to the city – but again, without table games these promises seem to be rather empty. Considering their relative closeness to Atlantic City, and the fact that the area they are in already has a terrible traffic problem and the casinos will only add more traffic – it does not seem likely that the casinos will bring in what they have promised when they don’t have the draw.

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