In this performance, the role of Thenardier will be played by a trio of misfits:
Bruce Blakeman - Nassau County Executive
Kathy Hochul - NYS Governor
Rob Goldstein - Sands CEO
"Master of the house, keeper of the zoo
Ready to relieve 'em of a sou or two
Watering the wine, making up the weight
Pickin' up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend
I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end!"
Picking even Santa's purse while the jolly guy is indisposed...and by an employee of the house...
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Thank you, {I deleted friend's name]. The words from Lucy Dadayan really hit home. Casinos are a relic from the days of Dean Martin.
I’m glad an economist like Ms. Dadayan was able to put it into words and graphs. Her observations are from a Town Hall zoom hosted by NYS Senator Liz Krueger. She is fighting hard against any casinos coming into Manhattan. In fact, I believe she agree with my view that no new licenses should be awarded downstate. I hope, if they must, they only upgrade Yonkers Raceway and Resorts World (Aqueduct Raceway) to full fledged casinos.
Unfortunately, Hochul is as short—sighted as Cuomo. She plans for her three new casinos to fund the ailing MTA. She is lost in the weeds with this one.
[Friend's name]
[Friend's name] June 20, 2024 Casinos are a dying business, as we learn from better information than we had one year ago. Sands does not belong here.
Gambling was prohibited in NY State until 2013 when Andrew Cuomo quietly changed the wording of the casino ballot measure to read like an ad, promising job growth, increased aid to schools, and lower property taxes through revenues generated.” [1]
Cuomo made these changes with no evidence to prove casinos may be good for the economy.
A July 13, 2014 NY Times editorial warned us “just when New York is proposing to ramp up its gambling business, the financial community (Moody’s Investment Services) is souring on the idea that casinos are an easy answer to state and local financial problems.”
In 2021, The University of Illinois published a report titled: “Bans on Sports Gambling and Lotteries would pump-prime the U.S. Economic System in the new age of Covid” [2], quoting Jesse Jackson, who predicted many serious socio-economic costs when he labeled legalized gambling activities as “the new chains of slavery.”
In May 2023, Hofstra University published a paper titled: “The Economic Unsuitability of a Casino at the Nassau County Hub’.[3]
They proposed alternate projects similar to those which the Legislature has welcomed. For example, the announcement by NYU/Langone and Nassau Community College to coordinate on the establishment of a medical center at the Hub.
LV Sands wants to erect the nation’s second largest casino in a year which will be the hottest on record while drawing so much water that they have to request re-zoning, build a new well AND figure out where to move all the waste.
On February 22, 2024, Ms. Lucy Dadayan, of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, presented a report noting casinos create $3 in social costs for every $1 they bring in.
She adds:
- “gambling revenue decline is everywhere, even in Nevada.
-In Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, all are falling short of income forecasts. New York has seen a revenue decline of 10-25% since 2019”.
-Revenues are volatile and decrease over time, and won’t fund critical services.
-FBI statistics show non-violent crime increases, and Nevada is the capital of human sex trafficking
-casino revenues are ALWAYS over-estimated”, and “offer low-skilled jobs which hinder economic growth.”
With on-line gambling also on the rise, gambling in brick-and-mortar casinos will not survive. Reject Sands this second time around.
The age of casinos has passed. They are a dying business we cannot afford to support.
[1] Stacked Deck – Inside the Politics of New York’s Dishonest Casino Plan. An investigative Report by Paul Davies. Institute for American Values 2013.
[2] University of Illinois Law Review Volume 2021, Number 5
[3] The Economic Unsuitability of a Casino at the Nassau County ”Hub”. The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.
[4] “The Impact of Casinos on Urban Communities”, February 22, 2024 Town Hall zoom meeting. Hosted by NYS Senator Liz Krueger.
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