WILKES-BARRE — City council will help the Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs casino move forward, even though the project is located outside Wilkes-Barre.At a special meeting Thursday, council voted to apply for state grant funding to assist with the $500 million project in Plains Township. The city will join Plains Township to ask for up to $15 million over the next five years for the casino, a project that Wilkes-Barre council members said would benefit all of Luzerne County.
WTF. This whole gambling thing is supposed to create a never ending stream of tax money not cost the public treasury. A friend of mine recently opened a lawn mower repair business and didn't get a dime of taxpayer money. How did he do it?
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ReplyDeleteI try to keep it funny and thoughtful, so stop by and maybe you'll like it and return and become one of the commentors.
Maybe we could link each other too...just let me know.
Actually I read both of your blogs and enjoy them. I just don't understand this hatred of David Bell. He always speaks so well of you. I'm sure we can work out a deal. How about we trade links with a comment to be named later? Also you must promise to keep me on the 25 site blogroll roster and not send me down to livejournal.
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ReplyDeleteStarting casinos is really really hard and you have to hire all your relatives and friends to sit around and do nothing. but a lawn mower repair business just takes hard work, long hours, know how and some money. Hardly the same thing. (sarcasm)
I always wondered the same thing about the vast amounts of money that state taxpayers gave to Cabella's to build their sporting-goods version of Disneyland. How do other, smaller, competing sporting goods stores get a piece of the pie?
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