The following information is about Atlantic City Casinos. I'm sure similar results are found in Vegas and other gaming venues.
The AC casinos (according to the Star Ledger of Jan. 11, 2009) had the following gross revenues:
2005=4.5 billion; 2006=4.8 billion; 2007=5.3 billion; 2008=5.0 billion
In other words, gross revenues in 2008 were higher than in either 2005 or 2006. If they weren't complaining in those years, why are they bitching and moaning now? It's not like revenues fell 50%.
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