Jackson Jambalaya

Who cares? Gamblers are degenerates. This entire state and nation is mentally, physically, and spiritually diseased.

From the beginning there was only one real "destination resort" area for casino gambling in Mississippi, the Gulf Coast. The rest were all dependent on other states not providing gambling sites for their own gamblers who wanted the experience. Those days are gone when people would drive to Tunica or take an excursion to that cotton field just to satisfy their urge to gamble. They either want more or they stay home and go online. The Gulf Coast has more. Mississippi should concentrate on enhancing the resort experience on the Coast. Only a hurricane can slow down the Coast.

It appears maybe the suckers among us are beginning to catch on to the scam that is legalized gambling.

Legalize Pot. Isn't that the answer to everything?

I went to a Mississippi casino once, looking for beautiful people-
but I didn't see any.

8:33 is right for the most part, but Vicksburg is still a cool place to visit. Take a stroll downtown on a weekend.

BUT, I still rather live next door to someone who gambles than a "fake" like you!!!!!!

Mississippi Road to the Top: try gambling. Try weed. What’s next? Prostitution?

Casinos are no longer a novelty nor a tourist destination. Every state seems to have them. They’ve lost their glitter.

OH No!

Anyway...........................

@9:38 …a fake what?

Wish DraftKings would find some Saints tix for this tired, old taxpayer.

It's almost as if younger people would prefer to gamble on sports and video games than push buttons on a machine or sit at a table and play cards...Casinos are a great place to rid yourself of your hard earned money and then complain how bills and groceries are expensive.

Wasn't it Ex Gov Haley Barbour, wizard of wastrel projects, last year who promoted that a casino in Downtown Jackson could save it?

It was a novelty which lost its sparkle. Vegas is so expensive now fewer people go. Tourism is down sharply. The economy is in tatters. Foreclosures are up. Bankruptcies are up. And add the AI being the new novelty and it’s destructive application…..drink up folks

They would need to lower the AOC back down to 13 or 14 first.

a new means of fleecing the sheeple shall fill the gap

I remember all too well what the politicians told us when the Legislature was considering legalizing dock side gambling. They said it would generate money for roads, bridges and schools...and that we would be able to fully fund education and have highways other states would envy. Well, the casinos came and got what they wanted out of the people and now it seems they are leaving. And the roads, bridges and schools are as much in need of funding as they ever were.

Is there any doubt at this point that any source of revenue promised by politicians to benefit citizens will in fact be stolen or frittered away by said politicians?

Tunica definitely squandered the money poured into that county over the years.

If I had the disposable income to gamble, I would use it to escape this place.

Reminds me of that gas station in Delta, La. everybody from Jackson and surrounding areas would drive over to and get lottery tickets.

The real issue is no matter how much money you give the government, they will piss it away and want more. In the 60s, we legalized booze for all that tax money...it was for the children. In the 90s, we legalized gambling for all that tax money...it was for the children. Now we have a lottery for all that tax money...it's for the children. How much extra tax money has the government gotten for all those children and pissed away?

That was the highlight of my 90 year-old grandmother's week...going to "Indian town" with her younger brother and pulling on those one-armed bandits for a few hours. I think it kept her alive for a year or two longer that she would have lived otherwise. Damned degenerate.

Tunica. Mississippi? That’s where games go to die isn’t it?
-Al Pacino Oceans 13

Mississippi is simply a welfare state. Literally. The wealthy farmers and egg companies and corporations get nonstop Gubmint welfare bailouts and subsidies and tax breaks. We get pacifying booze and weed so we will forget our jobs are outsourced to foreigners and our electricity rates and taxes are hiked. So of course we need to bail out Bezos and Gates and gaming too now. It’s the least we can do as the middle class is sacrificed.
And throw in some more Restaurant and Farm Welfare too thanks to RINO Roger and Ag Welfare Queen Cindy. Let’s go Mormon Billionaires for Guvnah!!!!

I'm 43. People my age just don't go to casinos like people our parents age did. I'll be honest, I walked through a casino a few months ago, didn't play anything, and couldn't wait to get out of the place because it reeked of cigarette smoke.

At some point anything will reach it's peak then you have a shakeout. Cottonpatch Tunica was way overbuilt in the first place. Vicksburg cannot sustain more than two small casinos. What the hell is in Philadelphia Miss.? The Gulf Coast should have a first class amusement park and it can sustain a vibrant resort business. It ain't Vegas but it can work. There's no magic, just common sense business.

Sid - For your edification, "gaming" is what antisocial nerds do with video games in their parents' basement. "Gambling" is what desperate addicts do instead of paying the mortgage and feeding the kids. Your manipulative word games don't change that fact.

Well, the voting public is stupid…so there’s that. They believe anything a politician says then is disappointed when they discover they lied.

11:31 for today's win - in a big way!

3:12
What about those of us parents with kids who bought a Nintendo Switch during the scamdemic lockdowns and bonded over hours of Mario Kart and Minecraft? My kids are now 12 and 17 and we still like to break out the joycons and play on rainy Sundays. I played Xbox 360 when I was young and I got a theoretical degree in physics!

Nasty. I thought it was verboten to smoke inside a building? I've noticed even Gulf Shores, AL, where the streets and beach were once paved with cigarette butts, is losing the habit.

Sid the Statist Shill calls it gaming. It’s gambling, Sid. You’re only lipsticking the pig.

around here the politicians and industry leaders always has to ''clean up ''the name of a product or service in order to be politically correct............
hence you get:
gaming for gambeling

package stores for liquor stores

cannibus dispensary for pot shops

distilleries for a vodka bottler

brewery for a beer factory

gentlemens clubs for strip club

power ball for the lottery

For out of a muddy, impoverished, delta cotton field thou were created, and to a muddy, impoverished, delta cotton field thou shalt return.

considering all the little misadventures of the mississippi legislature, the only hope for this state is to repeal the treaties of dancing rabbit creek and dokes stand, give it all back to the choctaws, and become one big indian reservation.

So in 2024, the casinos in Mississippi generated revenue of revenue of $2.43 billion, of which the General Fund saw $156.6 million, plus $96.5 million to local governments, and $36 million to road and bridge maintenance.

That's less than 11% in taxes.

Casinos have had an exclusive license to print money in Mississippi for 30 years. So cry me a river.

"Casinos have had an exclusive license to print money in Mississippi for 30 years."

Why would they need to go to the expense of printing it when folks just give it to them?