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Originally Posted by DaveC95818
Its always the "state" with you lefties anyways. And private enterprise is always the greedy villian in any endeavor.
Somehow one individual's opinion has become a vast leftist conspiracy. It's always that way with you right-wing nuts. ;P
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You guys don't want any progressive business ideas floating around up there. It may display the kind of Private-sector based economic model that Massachusetts Democrats have been trying to surpress for 50 years. All hail Mike Dukakis and the tax-and-spend, triple your drivers license fee, all in on corruption kind of thinking that you are used to.
Yeah, I know you're just trolling DaveC, but 1983 called and it misses you.
I don't know much about Steve Wynn other than what I've read - the guy has a rep as being a ruthless but effective businessman - ie he sounds typical of the species. Word here in the Commonwealth is that he is
not the favorite to get the first green-light - but I don't have any backroom info.
But as to your slam of the Commonwealth...MA has certainly seen its fair share of govt corruption (show me a US state that hasn't) but with pretty much no natural resources other than our own brains and backs, we manage to have:
- one of the US's largest state GDPs,
- one of the highest per capita incomes (even after our middle-of-the-pack tax levels - like I said, 1983 misses you),
- second longest life expectancy (aloha Hawaii ftw),
- highest educational levels (including top marks for our kids),
- lowest injury/death rate from auto accidents or guns,
- broader personal freedoms,
- low(er) unemployment,
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and high levels of entrepenuerial activity (most quarters typically the third highest number of venture deals after CA and NY).
Oh btw, we also pay more into the federal system in taxes than we get back - and have for decades. Because we're civilized enough and smart enough to realize that things like interstates, national parks, and being safe when you fly in an airplane, drink the water and breathe the air - are the hallmarks of a great
nation.
And now it looks like we'll have some casinos soon. Once we do, I hope you'll come and visit the cradle of American freedom.