Post by Logan on Feb 18, 2016 1:33:25 GMT -6
BETHLEHEM — For the past six years, Sands Casino in Bethlehem has developed a reputation for giving away thousands of little plastic cards loaded with free slot-machine money each day.
It's a policy that's helped make the Sands Pennsylvania's biggest draw for out-of-state gamblers, but under Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed budget, it's one the South Side gambling hall may have to pay dearly to continue.
Wolf is looking to extract another $51 million a year out of the state's casinos, and the biggest part of that — roughly $12 million annually — would come from the Sands in Bethlehem.
That's because no casino uses free slot-machine money — and the tax break that comes with it — to lure people in the way Sands does.
Read more: vegasinc.com/business/2016/feb/17/pennsylvania-casino-tax-would-hit-sands-hardest/
It's a policy that's helped make the Sands Pennsylvania's biggest draw for out-of-state gamblers, but under Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed budget, it's one the South Side gambling hall may have to pay dearly to continue.
Wolf is looking to extract another $51 million a year out of the state's casinos, and the biggest part of that — roughly $12 million annually — would come from the Sands in Bethlehem.
That's because no casino uses free slot-machine money — and the tax break that comes with it — to lure people in the way Sands does.
Read more: vegasinc.com/business/2016/feb/17/pennsylvania-casino-tax-would-hit-sands-hardest/