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Casino at Philadelphia Airport?

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Written by Richard Kane   
Monday, 10 January 2011 08:50
Philadelphians may be about to entering the worst of all possible worlds. The worldwide economic problems and local conditions combining. Philadelphia was forced by the last governor to have a casino that ended up put in a very unglamourous location. However, Pennsylvania’s new Governor, Tom Corbett, may be looking for a cheap way to help Philadelphia, so as not to appear to only represent the Republican and more rural western parts of Pennsylvania.

People used to poverty can fair better than someone suddenly desperate. The tourist industry is dependent upon Philadelphia never getting a reputation like Camden NJ had. In the world at large both the dollar and euro are in danger. Republicans and upstaters in general don’t like Philadelphia. SugarHouse is one of the worst places for a casino when it comes to getting any tax revenue from anyone with any substantial income to spend. State Stores employees might wild-cat-strike rather than accept notice that their job will end in a year. A court order to open a state store as a necessary industry won’t take. People near the state border might continue to pay their liquor tax, and city sales tax on alcohol across state lines when the strike is over, only slowly returning to their new neighborhood private liquor stores. State Store workers not working adding to the Philadelphia unemployment squeeze.

Philadelphia’s licence for a second casino fell though. There is a Gaming Board law that casinos must be 10 miles apart with the original exception of Philadelphia is hard to amend, so a big ship docked on Packard Avenue, the last casino proposal would have had to fight with the anti-casino people on two fronts.

But what about a new casino at the Philadelphia airport, for SugarHouse to move to the airport would be a step up for them, maybe the anti-Casino folk might hop aboard, in order to distance SugarHouse from a lot of poor folk.

Those on a fixed income might have nothing to eat for almost a month if they go the SugarHouse the first day of their check. To wander though the supermarket without officially buying anything really stands out. If someone very rarely steals, ends up stopping at a corner store where they stole a peanut butter cracker from, they may in shame even if not caught never shop there again.

In a previous article I mentioned urban gardens might start emphasizing potatoes, and lawns and window buckets as well, since medieval farmers used to hide them in the ground for when various medieval tax-collecting armies marched through. Mayor Nutter could plant potatoes in urban gardens and pave over City Hall court yard and Love Park, and the President grow potatoes on the White House lawn.

I hope I can change the subject a little, 35 years ago Philadelphia had a back-to-nature sect where the kids ran around without diapers and their urban garden was the yard only casually turned over with dirt. They were amazingly healthy and as well know around the world as the miners recently trapped in Chile. They imagined that the whole world was about to join them if they would keep the city from evicting them for long enough. Wouldn’t it be ironic if some of their dreams represented our future?

I realize I am being just as ridiculous as them to conclude what Philadelphia does will control the future. But a casino at the airport would give us a little breathing space as we prepare for the future.

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