If You Own a Business, You Should Be Very Concerned

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If You Own a Business, You Should Be Very Concerned 

Every dollar that gets spent at the casinos, will be one less dollar that will be spent at local businesses.  Over a billion dollars a year in consumer spending will be diverted to the casinos and that giant sucking noise will be the sound of money leaving your cash register and going into the casino owners' pockets.  Most Massachusetts cities and towns will lose millions of dollars a year in local spending.  How much of that money is currently being spent in your business?  What happens when it no longer is?

 

Want to see how much current retail spending will flow out of your hometown and into the casinos?  Click on these links to view:

 

Western Counties:

http://massvoteyeson3.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-casino-gambling-losses-per.html

 

Central and Northern Counties:

http://massvoteyeson3.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-casino-gambling-losses-per-city-or.html

 

Southern, Cape and Island Counties:

http://massvoteyeson3.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-casino-gambling-losses-per_4.html

 

 

Is whatever you believe might be gained from casinos,

worth everything that you will lose?

 

 

 

On November 4th, Vote YES to Repeal the Casino Law

Vote YES on #3

Vote YES to STOP the Casino Mess

 

 

 

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Tourist-Dependent Areas and Businesses Will Get Hurt

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Tourist-Dependent Areas and Businesses Will Get Hurt

Tourism is discretionary spending.  So are casinos.  What happens to tourist destinations when millions of dollars currently spent by Massachusetts residents during local daytrips is, instead, diverted to the casinos?  Casinos won't just draw money away from the residents who live in tourist-dependent areas, they will also divert daytrippers whose spending is critically important to those areas.  Does that mean everyone will choose gambling over tourism?  No, but it doesn't require the loss of every tourist dollar to cause a meaningful loss of income and jobs.

 

 

Is whatever you believe might be gained from casinos,

worth everything that you will lose?

 

 

 

On November 4th, Vote YES to Repeal the Casino Law

Vote YES on #3

Vote YES to STOP the Casino Mess

 

 

 

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We Can't Win Without YOU!

 

The Two Questions Casinos Don't Want You to Ask

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The Two Questions Casinos Don't Want You to Ask:

The casinos are projected to siphon an additional $1 billion dollars out of the Massachusetts economy every year.  This isn't money that is currently being gambled by residents.  It's money that residents are currently spending at nearby businesses.  That $1 billion dollars is the equivalent of an additional 1,000,000 Massachusetts gamblers losing $1,000 a year to the new casinos.  That's roughly 1 in 5 Massachusetts adults who will stop spending that money elsewhere, and start spending it at the casinos. 

Now ask yourself these two questions: 

1.  Where is that $1 billion dollars a year being spent now? 

2.  What happens to those businesses and their employees, once it no longer is?

 

 

Is whatever you believe might be gained from casinos,

worth everything that you will lose?

 

 

 

On November 4th, Vote YES to Repeal the Casino Law

Vote YES on #3

Vote YES to STOP the Casino Mess

 

 

 

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We Can't Win Without YOU!

 

The Days of the Destination Casino are Long Gone

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The Days of the Destination Casino are Long Gone:

Atlantic City's collapse is irrefutable proof that the days of the destination casino are over.  Years ago, gamblers would travel hundreds -- even thousands -- of miles to gamble, bringing distant dollars to the casinos -- dollars that wouldn't, otherwise, be spent in those markets.  Those distant dollars made Las Vegas, Atlantic City (and even Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun) great successes in their heyday.  But things have changed.  The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and numerous others have recently come to the same conclusion:  the market for casinos in the Northeast is saturated.  Today, most gamblers live within 50 miles of the casinos.  Instead of bringing new dollars into the market, casinos now just suck dollars OUT of the local market, stealing revenue and profits away from local businesses and depositing it into their own coffers.  The problem is, as those local businesses suffer, so do their employees

 

 

 

Is whatever you believe might be gained from casinos,

worth everything that you will lose?

 

 

 

On November 4th, Vote YES to Repeal the Casino Law

Vote YES on #3

Vote YES to STOP the Casino Mess

 

 

 

WANT TO HELP?    

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We Can't Win Without YOU!

 

Casinos Harm Our Communities

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Casinos Harm Our Communities

Casinos will extract millions of dollars from the residents of your hometown.  Millions (and in many cities, tens of millions) of dollars in current local retail spending will be shifted to the casinos every year.  It doesn't matter if the casino is located in your backyard, or 25 miles away, every dollar your neighbors lose at the casino is one less dollar they will spend in town.  Every resident of your community will pay the price for that loss.

 

If you want to see how much money your neighbors are projected to gamble at the casinos every year, go to the following links to view how much money will be flowing away from businesses in your town, to the casinos:

 

Western Counties: http://massvoteyeson3.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-casino-gambling-losses-per.html

 

Central and Northern Counties:  http://massvoteyeson3.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-casino-gambling-losses-per-city-or.html

 

Southern, Cape and Island Counties:  http://massvoteyeson3.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-casino-gambling-losses-per-city-or.html

 

 

Is whatever you believe might be gained from casinos,

worth everything that you will lose?

 

 

 

On November 4th, Vote YES to Repeal the Casino Law

Vote YES on #3

Vote YES to STOP the Casino Mess

 

 

 

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    3 Ways You Can:

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We Can't Win Without YOU!

 

Casinos Harm Our Families

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Casinos Harm Our Families

When casinos enter the picture, rates of domestic violence, crime, drunk driving, child neglect, wrecked marriages, divorce, bankruptcy, home foreclosure, suicide and addiction all rise dramatically.  Incidents of embezzlement, theft and the passing of bad checks also skyrocket as desperate gamblers commit crimes to pay off their debts.  Proximity to casinos dramatically increases the likelihood of problem gambling and gambling addiction.  That's not good for anyone.

 

 

 

Is whatever you believe might be gained from casinos,

worth everything that you will lose?

 

 

 

On November 4th, Vote YES to Repeal the Casino Law

Vote YES on #3

Vote YES to STOP the Casino Mess

 

 

 

WANT TO HELP?    

    3 Ways You Can:

         1) share/post these messages widely:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005253047911

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We Can't Win Without YOU!

 

Casinos Hurt Our Businesses

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Casinos Hurt Our Businesses

As children, we all learned that you can't spend the same dollar in two different places.  Every dollar that gets spent at the casino is a dollar less that is available to spend at other businesses.  That reality will hit local business owners especially hard.  These are the same business owners who live in our neighborhoods, support our schools, invest in our communities, donate to our charities, and employ us and our neighbors.  Driving these investors, job creators and contributors out of business and out of our communities, will make our towns -- and our entire State -- a much less desirable place to live. 

 

 

Is whatever you believe might be gained from casinos,

worth everything that you will lose?

 

 

 

On November 4th, Vote YES to Repeal the Casino Law

Vote YES on #3

Vote YES to STOP the Casino Mess

 

 

 

WANT TO HELP?    

    3 Ways You Can:

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         2) volunteer:  http://www.repealthecasinodeal.org/how-to-help

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We Can't Win Without YOU!

 

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