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Casinos a drain on region

Sun., March 18, 2012

This is about the new casino proposed for the West Plains. Enough is enough. The big sucking sound you hear now is the money being sucked out of the Spokane area by the big non-taxpaying casinos. The money is spent by people who cannot afford to lose. The loss of jobs and closed businesses in Spokane to these casinos is huge.

By the way, whose money is it? They can smoke; they can gamble; they can do as they please. Who pays for the people who lose their homes because of gambling sickness? When this second giant casino is built in the Spokane area, these casinos will be hurting local business even more than now. The governor should think about the damage done to local people and business.

Robert Carroll

Newman Lake

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