Brian Rosenthal's Weblog

I don’t understand why people keep saying that the destruction of the casinos in Mississippi will hurt the economy in the South. Yes, the state won’t collect taxes there, but the residents also won’t lose the money, and the people of Alabama and Louisiana and Georgia who would have traveled to Mississippi won’t lose their money either.

Honestly, I bet the economy of Mississippi would be helped in the longterm if this destroys the casinos, but it won’t, because they’ll rebuild them, just like they always do.