Plans for Mashpee Wampanoag casino in Taunton unveiled

[MADem]

6. Well, those gamblers won't be taking the family car down to CT or RI--they'll be closer to home,

easier to find and drag outta there.

As it is, it's a simple matter to get to Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun--they run buses there all the time. They make it way too easy. The horse is already way outta the barn on this issue.

If people are going to do it anyway, may as well keep the dough in-state. I think, if they're like most states, they'll put some of the money aside for treatment programs for the addicted gamblers.

There are plenty of places for addicted gamblers to gamble illegally, to say nothing of opportunities on the internet. This kind of thing is the new paradigm.

People said that lifting the blue laws would be the beginning of the end, too. All I can see is that fewer people are driving, sometimes drunk, up to NH....