Neal, Joseph M., Jr White, Claytee D

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Part of an interview with Senator Joe Neal by Claytee White on March 6, 2006. Neal discusses the cost of tourism posed by the gaming industry in Nevada and compares the low taxes on gaming profits to higher gaming taxes elsewhere.You see, tourism is like a sports game where the winning depends upon the ability of someone else. It is better to have your own producers within your own borders to produce that livelihood that you hold dear rather than, say, depending upon someone else. Tourism, as I indicated to you earlier, is not a win-win situation for the population of this particular state. It's a win-win for the gamers if they are not taxed sufficiently. It only becomes a win-win situation for the residents when you get the money to tax them to pay for the tourists when they come here. Look, in this particular county, you have an average of about 35 million people that come here each year, okay. That's added to your population, and that's on a base population of about 1,600,000 people. Now, just think about the service needs that go to those tourists that are provided by that base of 1,600,000. Something is wrong with that particular picture, you see. Unless you correct that, you're going to continu

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