But since gaming is everywhere in the nation now and since the corporatization of the Strip, they're seeing things differently. I think you're going to see a more diversified economy here in a couple of decades. I think you'll see the momentum start to build on the nongaming side. Still, everyone knows on which side the bread is buttered. One of the largest incentives for businesses to move to Nevada is the absence of a state income tax, a luxury made affordable by the gaming industry's taxable wealth.
Gaming still runs the state, of course.
Well, yes and no. In reality, it's gone, but we still like to imagine it. Las Vegas sells intangibles. We want to have that feeling that there are no rules. Experience without consequence.