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Andrew Cuomo and New York’s pliable Legislature kowtowed to the
gambling industry last year and, using loaded language on the ballot
referendum, tricked the electorate into changing the State Constitution
to allow casino gambling on the dubious premise that it would bolster
the state economy.
Taking this dangerously flawed concept another step forward, the Cuomo administration on Wednesday awarded permits for three huge casino operations in upstate New York.
Fortunately,
it rejected the worst of the 16 proposals the gambling industry put
forward — a thoroughly misguided plan for a massive casino complex
adjacent to Sterling Forest, an important watershed and recreational
area only 40 miles from New York City. It instead chose one site near
Albany, in Schenectady; one near Monticello, next to the former home of a
fabled Catskills resort; and one in the Finger Lakes area of Tyre.
Meanwhile, as a result of a wholly separate deal
between Mr. Cuomo and a powerful Senate Republican, Dean Skelos, two
huge slot parlors, each holding 1,000 slot machines, will soon appear in
Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Neither will offer the Vegas-style glitz
of the upstate resorts, but both will be no less efficient in vacuuming
the pockets of the poor.
Slot
parlors are a wretched deal for most communities, and it is even more
appalling to see them used as life support for Long Island’s Off-Track
Betting Corporations, which are patronage schemes tied to an ailing
horse-racing industry. Nassau County, having been run into a financial
ditch under Republican leadership, is under a financial control board
and is desperate for cash. Suffolk’s Off-Track Betting Corporation,
which is emerging from bankruptcy, is similarly itching for a cash
infusion.
Taken
together, the three upstate casinos and the two Long Island slot
parlors mean that the glut of gambling facilities in the Northeast is
about to get much, much worse. The regional gambling market is already
brutally competitive. Four of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos have closed,
and a fifth filed for bankruptcy last month. The big tribal casinos in
Connecticut are faltering. There are already five tribal casinos in
upstate New York and nine slot parlors at state racetracks. The idea
that five new facilities can bring in sustainable revenue seems the
stuff of fantasy.
What
Long Island and upstate New York need is a government that nurtures
responsible growth while also tending to the interests of the working
class, the elderly and the poor. Instead, its elected officials are
addicted to quick fixes and seemingly painless revenue streams.
Legalized gambling is one of those illusions, pushed as a source of
economic development by politicians who can’t come up with anything
better.
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