Question for Cincinnati: Who Doesn't Want Gambling Here?
Certainly, the people in Southeast Indiana want to keep it. Riverboat casinos in Lawrenceburg, Rising Sun and Florence, Ind., have poured millions of dollars into local government coffers and even more millions of dollars into the casino conglomerates that own them. Many of those dollars, the theory goes, come from the wallets of citizens of Ohio and Kentucky. And those dollars keep getting spent in Indiana.
But there's not much arguing that when you're sitting at a blackjack table, the house always wins in the end. And if you're betting on the outcome of the economic rivalry between casino-laden Indiana and its gambling-challenged neighbor states, Indiana is playing with house money. In sports and politics and even great literature, rivalries are only rivalries if both parties have a chance to win. Recall Atticus Finch's daughter Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird," whose battles with the cook Calpurnia were "epic and one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took her side."
May 22, 2006
Posted By Bob Hartman
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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