If you live in the Cedar Rapids community you may have heard about the new casino that is being proposed. At first I was totally in favor of it. I like to gamble, there are undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands of people who like to gamble so why not? But the more I looked into it, the more that the facts started to disturb me -on multiple fronts.
The people who want to build the casino claim that it will help boost the local economy by bringing tourism, conventions, etc. But the people who don't want the casino, according to their website, claim three things: no specifics, wasteful spending, and not real economic development. On the surface this seems like a legit complaint. However, as I dove into it I discovered that the opposition to the casino is backed by pre-existing casinos such as Riverside and Isle of Capri in Waterloo.
This just seems like another typical case of political manipulation and special interest groups trying to one up the people. But then again this is only my opinion.
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