But their business is the same separating people from their money in the most efficient way. Economist Robert Goodman, author of The United States gambling Study , points out that there is no popular movement to legalize casinos in the United States. Look carefully at his promises . As a taxpayer, you have paid dearly for those promises. Now casinos promise economic development, tax money and jobs, but the reality is likely to be far different.
Economists don t seem to think so.
Not unless you can import the gamblers from somewhere else, as they do in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. They won t fly in from California, nor will they come in by the busloads from Philadelphia or New York. Since the operators plan 22 licenses for Texas, gamblers won t come in from Fort Worth, Farmers Branch, Garland, Houston, Austin, San Antonio or the Gulf Coast. They are promised their own casinos. Dallas casinos would prey on the metroplex.