Ignoring the Consequences

This is what Massachusetts has invited ---

Atlantic City is the Poster Child for the failures of Predatory Gambling.
Although revenues are declining, discretionary income is being sucked from surrounding communities in staggering amounts.

Posted May 19, 2013 - 12:39am

Battered Atlantic City seeks to reinvent itself as destination resort

Atlantic City Gaming
Annual Revenues
2012 : $3.051 billion, -8 percent

2011: $3.317 billion, -7 percent

2010: $3.565 billion, -9.6 percent

2009: $3.943 billion, -13.24 percent

2008: $4.544 billion, -7.64 percent

2007: $4.920 billion, -5.7 percent

2006: $5.217 billion, 3.97 percent

2005: $5.018 billion, 4.4 percent

2004: $4.806 billion, 7.1 percent

2003: $4.488 billion, 2.44 percent

Source: New Jersey Division of Gaming
Enforcement


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