What type of business that is added to a community benefits everyone in the community? A Casino. Casino's benefit towns greatly by giving back to the community in many ways. What most people don't know about casinos is that they create jobs, pay a considerable amount of taxes to the community, and create tourism.
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A. General Information.
1. When people go to casinos, they might gamble their money, stay at hotels, eat out, or go do other recreational activities. Some people may win money, but the odds are in the casinos favor and generally take in a lot of money.
2. There are over 100 non-commercial casinos found on Native American reservations in which don't pay taxes.
3. Then there is other casinos in which pay taxes and are commercialized. An example of a few are the three temporary operating casinos in Michigan, which were legalized here in December of 1996, by the means of a local advisory note, then by a statewide voter referendum, and finally it took legislative action.
4. The first casino that opened was the MGM Grand in July of 1999. Then it was followed by the opening of Motor City Casino in December of 1999, and finally the Greektown Casino in November of 2000.
5. Each of these casinos have restaurants, but no hotels, major stages or theaters (like a boxing ring or where Sigfried and Roy perform).
6. But Detroit is voting and contemplating on whether or not to move the casinos to a permanent place, then in which they can put permanent fixtures like these in their establishment.
8. Right now Detroit is the largest major city in the U.S. with casino gambling. The MGM Grand in Detroit is currently showing the highest return on investment of all MGM properties.
7. Myself personally, I am all for the casino business. I would even like to see a few more put in.
B. Create Jobs.
1. In some communities jobs are hard to come by. A great feature of casinos is that it creates jobs.
2. A few years ago, for every $1 million dollars in revenues, 13 jobs were created.