The front page Register photo depicts the mayor of Riverside in front of the Enterprise, which suggests the whole Trek theme for the casino:
Of course, with the Ferengi running the whole thing, the casino should be highly profitable.
Beaming back down to Earth, I'm not excited about the whole thing. My libertarian streak makes me feel like people should be able to gamble if they wish, but the dominant progressive gene knows that gambling functions as a regressive tax.
Here's the other problem: there are a finite number of gambling dollars. Some folks are just never going to gamble. You could float a boat in front of Hancher, two blocks from my apartment, and I still wouldn't go there. At some point the market will be saturated, and I think we've reached that point already in Iowa. Building more casinos does not really create new jobs and new wealth. Every dollar gambled in Riverside, every job created, will be a zero-sum loss for Tama or Dubuque or the Quad Cities or Marquette.
Politics, Iowa
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