Gera, this is totally off-topic of course..
but manufacturing jobs are gone.. don't cry for them, but it's over.
100 years ago people were bitching about agricultural jobs going away.. guess what? they are almost all gone ( less then 2% of employment is in agriculture ) and we are a better country. Right now service industry is 80% of the jobs, manufacturing is less then 10% and dropping.
Taxing casinos/smoking/alcohol... what's wrong with that? It's the best type of tax - consumption tax...
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