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Originally Posted by MakoMike
The convention center is a big flop anyway, we should probably put the casino in the convention center, but that ain't gonna happen.
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Don't know if anybody already knew this, but the Convention Center
has been wired electrically and data wise for VLT machines. In about 2-3 days that place can be a gaming facility. That was a backup plan because it was never believed it would do well.
The bottom line for me is that Lincoln Park & Newport Grand give 60% of ALL PROFITS back to the state. These other casinos don't even want to give 25%; so the business that these two casinos would steal away from LP and NGrand, would actually hurt the state because overall the loss is 35% from what the person would give back to the state.
On another note, many people claim 'well at least the jobs would be a benefit'; wrong...
Unless you are already in the industry, you would be starting out at practically Wal-mart level pay with basically the same duties. And the hours would be horrible, amongst other negative aspects that outweigh the positive nature of having so many jobs available.
This isn't just a rant, if the casinos are approved I could be looking at a significant career bump due to my current qualifications; so it would be a major plus for me, but overall the casinos would not be the miracle RI needs...