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Maine Voters Turn Down Casinos Again

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Please help me understand why this topic keeps showing up on our ballots and the voters keep turning it down.  I am a business owner and I didn't have to go to the legislature to see if it would be ok if I invested money into a business and employ people who need jobs. 

We are a capitalist society and should be able to open any kind of a business that is legal without going to the state or the voters.  Casinos are now legal in the state of Maine, Bangor has one, there is one being built in Oxford, and the State has I don't know how many different ways to gamble, plus the state is a huge advertiser as well,  with the lottery, but that's ok.

I say let them build all the casinos they want in the state.  The real votes will count when the casino is profitable or not.  If someone wants to invest in building a casino and no on shows up to gamble or not enough people show up to gamble than the casino will have to close just like any other kind of business.

Why do we have to have politics involved in making these decisions?  Let the politicians and voters focus in on the real problems that we face in our state like lowering our taxes, which by the way most politicians promise to do yet mine keep going up.  How about doing something with lowering unemployment, oh wait we just shot one solution down by not letting them build some business that may or may not make it.

A few years ago a restaurant called Hooters wanted to open in Portland and the city would not give them a license I think because of morality issues.  I say give them the license and let the people decide on going to Hooters are not after they open.  If enough people don't go then Hooters would close, at least we gave them a chance to employ some people and who knows the may have made it and still be employing people.

We have to keep government out of morality issues; it gives them too many reasons not to focus on what is really wrong in our state and country. 

If you agree or disagree with me I would love to hear from you.

Pete