[curiously]

here's the thing. if you get rid of casinos, people are going to go underground.

whenever you ban or make certain activity or good illegal, you create a massive underground economy very quickly, and you can't extract tax revenues and end up spending money on the problems that arise as a result of having an underground economy.

Much rather have cocktail waitresses and air conditioned halls with security guards than sneak through a seedy Chinatown restaurant with false doors and scary looking guys.