Another Good Reason to move to Calif.!!!

[ezdays]

We have a casino here in Windsor Ont , opened about 15+ years ago ....I may have been 5 times , take $50 and if I lose it I'm gone home . Detroit has a bunch now too ....I'm not for them . They've taken down a lot of people who can't control themselves . Our area has a lot of bad debt thanks , in part , to the casino IMO. I know a lot of people like them and that's fine , Just not for me .

T

We see TV ads here for these casinos showing people raking in piles of cash. Everyone seems to be a winner, smiling and having a good time. One ad shows a woman playing the slots, then holding up a wad of bills that she won, another shows a group of people around a gaming table laughing and cheering as they all seem to be winning big. Then in tiny print at the bottom of the screen, there is some disclaimer saying that everyone should play responsibly. hock: That's about the same as a liquor ad telling an alcoholic to drink responsibly. Both are really interested in selling their products be it liquor or gambling. We have been to one of those casinos just once in their 20-some years in existence in Arizona, and it's been probably 15 years since we've gone up to Laughlin, NV, and even longer since we've been to Las Vegas, even though they're only a few hours drive from here. I'm not a prude when it comes to gambling, but at least in Nevada, the state regulates the payout percentages and you have a chance at winning, here in the Indian casinos, there are no regulations since the tribes and their casinos all are on Indian Nations. And in Arizona, they don't even have to pay taxes on their profits because of that, but they do "volunteer" to give the state some token sum instead.