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I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.

Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.