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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:45 PM Jun 2015

Vegas-style gambling launches in Massachusetts

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

BOSTON (Reuters) - The first Las Vegas-style casino in Massachusetts opened its doors on Wednesday, part of a plan proponents say will add thousands of jobs and bring millions of dollars to the state.

The Plainridge Park Casino in Plainville, about 35 miles southwest of Boston, invited patrons to try their luck at a variety of slot machines and video card games.

Officials promise more than 1,200 machines and the only live harness-racing track in the state. The casino is to operate year-round, 24 hours a day, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission said in a statement.

The Plainville casino opened after years of lobbying by the gambling industry and in the face of opposition of activists seeking to repeal the 2011 law legalizing casino gambling.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/vegas-style-gambling-launches-massachusetts-224519587--finance.html

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Vegas-style gambling launches in Massachusetts (Original Post) Little Tich Jun 2015 OP
Oh goodie Fearless Jun 2015 #1
Another symptom of economic deline project_bluebook Jun 2015 #2
Another state gets into the vice business. PSPS Jun 2015 #3

Fearless

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1. Oh goodie
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Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:54 PM
Jun 2015

The market is already saturated with Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, and Twin River. This will only serve to divert people and money, not actually make more for anyone.

Besides casino gambling's "benefits" are basically a regressive tax and low paying jobs for a few hundred to a few thousand employees.

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project_bluebook

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2. Another symptom of economic deline
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Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:58 PM
Jun 2015

failed reganomics. This happened in Michigan, turned a vacation wonderland into a crap shoot. Crime, drugs, low pay jobs and poverty, the future of America.

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