Texas has a government running a perpetual deficit but has no will to raise taxes. Give it a year. They'll propose legalizing sports gambling to raise revenue as part of a future budget.
I would suspect that Tillman Fertitta will be leading the charge to allow gambling (especially sports gambling) in Texas. I'm sure he'd love to build a Golden Nugget casino here.
I don’t think so. He put a ton of money in Lake Charles and if gambling was legal in texas no one would choose to go there.
I'm pretty sure Tillman would invest in building a Casino in the 4th largest city in the U.S. He just built a 5 star hotel in the Galleria.
If it’s legalized, of course he would. But he’d put it in galveston. But I just don’t think he will be lobbying for it because of his investment in Lake Charles
You don't know Texas. We'll be the last state that legalizes Weed. We are ass backwards religious nuts. We can't even buy Liquor on Sundays in 2018.
It's hypocritical to say Texas is all about freedom and deregulation when we have 70 year old laws in the books to stop people doing what they want.
most people I see saying that are just bashing Texas after unfortunate industrial accidents (because we actually have industry here). We are not even in the top half of states in regulatory freedoms. My point is the inability to buy distilled alcohol for one day ranks way lower than me being able to lane split.
Rumor is that the San Luis convention center can be converted to a casino quite easily if it ever comes to that.
I'll bet you that Texas will legalize weed within the first 15 states. Is it legal for us to make that bet? It's way too much money, and there is a big problem with the industry that Texas bankers will want to fix and capitalize on ... the dispensaries do not use banks. It's a $2billion industry (in Colorado alone) that is cashed based. Someone is going to solve the banking problem and make a lot of money doing so, and I'm betting it will be Texans....a state who also has conservative power in Washington.
If you're wondering who to thank.... The case was brought by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who argued against the NCAA and four professional sports leagues, not to mention both the Obama and Trump administrations, that PASPA was unconstitutional. (PASPA is the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a 25-year-old law that effectively limited sports gambling to the state of Nevada. Christie was proven correct. (link)
