If YOU would have done some research, you would have seen that there is NO guarantee that the higher taxes would be paid by the casino and there would have been a monopoly that would have lined the pockets of some very wealthy people and continued to drain this state of what little is left. As for the 6000 jobs ... there is NO guarantee that Ohio workers would have been the ones hired. The current employees of all those casinos that are losing business and laying off employees would have been given first dibs on OUR jobs. Propose the casino idea again, if you must. Just make sure the vague parameters are eliminated and no monopoly will be in place.

If you would have done some research on the casino bill, you would have discovered that they would have paid 30% in tax and distributed it to 88 counties. And don't forget about the potential 2,000 to 3,000 jobs it would have created to an area that is losing a DHL facility.

So all the money that could have stayed in Ohio now goes to Indiana, Michigan and Penn.

Way to go O-HI-O!!

IMHO, The fact that the legislators wanted to allow casino gambling in Ohio with no details of tax rates, license fees etc, and only at one site All lead to the smell of a underhanded smoke filled back room deal. Who knows what "exceptions to the laws" the legislators would have worked out.

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the payday loan businesses all franchised? As for the 6,000 jobs, That's what percent of the total people working in Ohio?