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Anonymous wrote:What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?

Casinos are awful, attract crime, are predatory. There is nothing redeeming about them whatsoever. Look at what the MGM in National Harbor has become. If there isn't crime inside there, it's in the parking lot or you're being followed from the parking lot and assaulted when you get home. Look at the casino in downtown Baltimore near the Ravens Stadium off of 295. It is just disgusting.

I dunno, casinos are used to get other people to pay for things that otherwise would have to be funded through increased property or income taxes. I consider that redeeming. Also, they're a tax on stupid, which I'm generally in favor of.

Faustian deals come at a cost. Just like all that tax money states collect from making recreational pot legal. How is that turning out?

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Anonymous wrote:What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?

Casinos are awful, attract crime, are predatory. There is nothing redeeming about them whatsoever. Look at what the MGM in National Harbor has become. If there isn't crime inside there, it's in the parking lot or you're being followed from the parking lot and assaulted when you get home. Look at the casino in downtown Baltimore near the Ravens Stadium off of 295. It is just disgusting.

Anonymous wrote:Virginia is going to learn the hard way from Maryland that when you interject partisanship into economic development you always lose. Turning down an arena but supporting a casino just because one had a Republican governor attached and the other has a Democratic legislator attached is bonkers.

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Anonymous wrote:What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?

Casinos are awful, attract crime, are predatory. There is nothing redeeming about them whatsoever. Look at what the MGM in National Harbor has become. If there isn't crime inside there, it's in the parking lot or you're being followed from the parking lot and assaulted when you get home. Look at the casino in downtown Baltimore near the Ravens Stadium off of 295. It is just disgusting.

I dunno, casinos are used to get other people to pay for things that otherwise would have to be funded through increased property or income taxes. I consider that redeeming. Also, they're a tax on stupid, which I'm generally in favor of.

Faustian deals come at a cost. Just like all that tax money states collect from making recreational pot legal. How is that turning out?

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Anonymous wrote:What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?

There’s literally a million reasons.

A casino will hurt local businesses, increase gridlock and public safety problems, lower property values, and encourage risky behaviors, while forever changing the character of our community.

Casinos bring exponentially more crime.

That's far from settled fact:
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/does-presence-casinos-increase-crime-examination-casino-and-control
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166046217300169

"Encourage risky behaviors." Like what?
"Changing the character of our community." Who are you afraid is going to come to a casino in Tysons?

Think carefully about your answer to that last question.

Same people who now take the Silver Line to Tysons and made it like Pentagon City.

Montgomery Mall is about to make a comeback due to lack of direct Metro transit access.

Isn’t Pentagon City doing better than ever these days. A new flagship Uniqlo and a Mango opened. While the smash and grabs have targeted the high end watch stores on multiple occasions though, the escape has been via car not Metro. (Strange how despite the high presence of police and secret service at Pentagon City during the last smash and grab when Blinken was shopping, the juvenile thieves still got away with the crime. I think the loss was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.)

Nordstrom (not specific to Pentagon City or Tysons) has lost tons of money due to their flexible return policies, not smash and grabs.

Better than ever? How long have you lived here? No, it is not.

Anonymous wrote:Marsden used to be a Republican.

Anonymous wrote:This is what you get for voting Democrat

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Anonymous wrote:What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?

Casinos are awful, attract crime, are predatory. There is nothing redeeming about them whatsoever. Look at what the MGM in National Harbor has become. If there isn't crime inside there, it's in the parking lot or you're being followed from the parking lot and assaulted when you get home. Look at the casino in downtown Baltimore near the Ravens Stadium off of 295. It is just disgusting.

I dunno, casinos are used to get other people to pay for things that otherwise would have to be funded through increased property or income taxes. I consider that redeeming. Also, they're a tax on stupid, which I'm generally in favor of.

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Anonymous wrote:What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?

There’s literally a million reasons.

A casino will hurt local businesses, increase gridlock and public safety problems, lower property values, and encourage risky behaviors, while forever changing the character of our community.

Casinos bring exponentially more crime.

That's far from settled fact:
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/does-presence-casinos-increase-crime-examination-casino-and-control
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166046217300169

"Encourage risky behaviors." Like what?
"Changing the character of our community." Who are you afraid is going to come to a casino in Tysons?

Think carefully about your answer to that last question.

Same people who now take the Silver Line to Tysons and made it like Pentagon City.

Montgomery Mall is about to make a comeback due to lack of direct Metro transit access.

Isn’t Pentagon City doing better than ever these days. A new flagship Uniqlo and a Mango opened. While the smash and grabs have targeted the high end watch stores on multiple occasions though, the escape has been via car not Metro. (Strange how despite the high presence of police and secret service at Pentagon City during the last smash and grab when Blinken was shopping, the juvenile thieves still got away with the crime. I think the loss was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.)

Nordstrom (not specific to Pentagon City or Tysons) has lost tons of money due to their flexible return policies, not smash and grabs.

Better than ever? How long have you lived here? No, it is not.

I appreciate that PP says that it is “better than ever” while acknowledging the rampant and uncontrolled levels of crime. It’s pretty much self-refuting.

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Anonymous wrote:What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?

There’s literally a million reasons.

A casino will hurt local businesses, increase gridlock and public safety problems, lower property values, and encourage risky behaviors, while forever changing the character of our community.

Casinos bring exponentially more crime.

That's far from settled fact:
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/does-presence-casinos-increase-crime-examination-casino-and-control
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166046217300169

"Encourage risky behaviors." Like what?
"Changing the character of our community." Who are you afraid is going to come to a casino in Tysons?

Think carefully about your answer to that last question.

Same people who now take the Silver Line to Tysons and made it like Pentagon City.

Montgomery Mall is about to make a comeback due to lack of direct Metro transit access.

Isn’t Pentagon City doing better than ever these days. A new flagship Uniqlo and a Mango opened. While the smash and grabs have targeted the high end watch stores on multiple occasions though, the escape has been via car not Metro. (Strange how despite the high presence of police and secret service at Pentagon City during the last smash and grab when Blinken was shopping, the juvenile thieves still got away with the crime. I think the loss was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.)

Nordstrom (not specific to Pentagon City or Tysons) has lost tons of money due to their flexible return policies, not smash and grabs.

Better than ever? How long have you lived here? No, it is not.

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Anonymous wrote:What would be so bad about having a casino in Tysons?

There’s literally a million reasons.

A casino will hurt local businesses, increase gridlock and public safety problems, lower property values, and encourage risky behaviors, while forever changing the character of our community.

Casinos bring exponentially more crime.

That's far from settled fact:
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/does-presence-casinos-increase-crime-examination-casino-and-control
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166046217300169

"Encourage risky behaviors." Like what?
"Changing the character of our community." Who are you afraid is going to come to a casino in Tysons?

Think carefully about your answer to that last question.

Like people getting addicted to gambling and having their lives ruined? NP