re: What the anti-gambling N LA politicians are costing the state.

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State Sen. Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, made the motion to kill the bill, saying his constituents do not want more gambling.

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How many casinos are there in St Tammany?

That's the cool thing, Senator... your constituents aren't going to have any more gambling in their backyards.

It's not hard. Do the same thing we did with the casinos, video poker, etc. Let each parish decide.

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Unless you're taking out of state money, gambling revenue just cannibilizes other discretionary spending. Every dollar gambled by a Louisiana resident is a dollar not spent on something more productive.

I'm not anti gambling. People should be free to do what they wish with their money. I like to play the ponies myself. But we should be realistic about it. It works for Vegas because it's almost entirely out of state money, and a worldwide destination resort. Legalized sports betting won't do much to fix Louisiana's fiscal problem, any more than casinos have. At least horse tracks support an agriculture industry that employ a few thousand people.

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Most of the casinos in Shreveport/Bossier and in Lake Charles pull money from Texas residents. In NOLA< I think the only one where it would make sense to have a book is at Harrah's, which does get a lot of out of state money.

Maybe one book in Baton Rouge makes sense.

Also, there is a lot of online betting, and underground sports betting being done by LA residents. I wonder if some of that would come into the local casinos.

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It’s not just the sports book money lost, it will be so many people that normally might stay in La to gamble who will now drive to Ms. add in hotel rooms, meals, etc and the taxes that go along.

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Bingo. I've said this many times, but for 10 years now, my friends and I have a guy's trip over Labor Day weekend. We'd all roll into NOLA Thursday night (some of us would fly in) and for the next three days we'd gamble, drink, and eat. The weekend would cap off on Sunday night with a blowout meal then our fantasy football draft. On Monday, we'd blearily make our ways home.

Between all the debauchery, food, gambling, and hotel rooms, we'd easily average a couple thousand dollars each dropped in the City of New Orleans. The league was full, so that's fourteen of us.

When we booked for this year's trip, we knew the SCOTUS was looking at the sports betting issue and Mississippi already said they were getting ready if the federal prohibition outside of Nevada were struck down, so we booked rooms for NOLA and Biloxi.

The NOLA rooms were canceled about a half hour after the court released its decision.

Good fricking riddance. We'll happily give Biloxi our money because they're willing to do the unimaginable: Let us sit in a room and drink while we watch college football and make wagers.

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Casinos weren’t placed in Shreveport and Lake Charles for Louisiana residents. It was for Dallas and Houston visitors.

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Just like how Oklahoma has them all over their side of the Red River, and Colorado with the pot shops all over their borders.

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I would be interested to see what would happen if Texas ushered in casinos. We see a lot of money funnel to LA and OK

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Some casinos in Louisiana would probably shut down

That sounds like a weekend from hell to me. Gambling is way too stressful to be entertaining. I only bet horses because I've gotten good enough at it to make a little money. If not for that I wouldn't be doing it at all.

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That sounds like a weekend from hell to me. Gambling is way too stressful to be entertaining.

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It's not as if we spend every waking moment doubling down on 18 and splitting tens (Never do this). Some moments are spent at shows. Others are spent shoveling whiskey into our faces. For parts of the weekend, we support the medical community by shoving dollar bills into Kandi's g-string so she can continue pursuing her dream of being a nurse.

Gambling's just part of it. Of course, instead of playing the Pass Line, we'll shift 12 hours of our focus to doing things like making halftime spread bets on the Umass at B.C. game while watching every game simultaneously with the other degenerates because we CAN.

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Louisiana would still be poor. The politicians would waste the money.

So really you’re not losing anything.

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My EXACT argument against legalizing weed in Louisiana. We don't have a revenue stream problem, we have a SPENDING problem.

Hell yeah.

Gambling will fix this shite.

We got boats, casinos, lottery, video poker and still cant drive down most roads without tearing up your car, terrible healthcare, and shite schools, boil advisories all over the state, crime out of control.....maybe we need no gambling.

Those people are too busy transporting drugs to Florida to stop in MS to bet on sports.