Letter: Casinos should help workers who lost jobs

Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001 | 8:52 a.m.

The Nevada casinos have laid off many thousands of employees and our politicians say that we, the taxpayers, should bear the burden of taking care of these unfortunate people.

Help should be rendered, but the casinos should render it. Double the gaming tax to 13 percent and plenty of dollars will be available. The same casinos have, in effect, used taxpayer dollars to subsidize their casinos in other states and pay two to three times more taxes elsewhere.

The current 6.5 percent Nevada gaming tax is ludicrous. Then the casinos have the chutzpah to turn around and ask the Nevada taxpayer to foot the bill for their employees who are laid off. They also pay millions to politicians' campaigns and lobbyists.

He who dances should pay the fiddler.

GEORGE P. DIX

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