Anonymous wrote:I used to live by a casino, anyone who has knows this is going to trash Tysons, Reston, or wherever they want to put it and the surrounding areas. Find me one example where a casino was placed in an area that has business and residents and it didn’t destroy the area. Casinos are built to invigorate an area with its negative tradeoffs being accepted because that area is doing so poorly. Is NOVA really doing so poorly? People keep talking about how this will save the residents so that the county doesn’t raise taxes, yup, hard no. When you see all the infrastructure issues and crime casinos bring, Fairfax county is going to raise taxes because they will need so many more resources to keep up with the problems. And for those residents in other parts of the state that don’t think they will be affected, you will once you see it doesn’t bring in the revenue you are being told it will by the politicians and now they will pull money out of your resources to put more into the casino and trying to make it look good for the state. This is a lesson in optics. VA residents, don’t listen to the politicians, go look at the facts with casinos around the country yourselves.