Massachusetts Wampanoag Indian Casino Gambling Approval

Massachusetts Wampanoag Indians Casino gambling approval in Middleborough will cost the state as much as $250 million in government revenues. While aiding and abetting the Wampanoags and the local community of Middleborough, that sum is the approximate amount of the sweetner payment negotiated by the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts to dissuade the State of Massachusetts from pursuing its own casino gambling initiative. The sum was the estimate of that figure which might cost Connecticut's approved casino gambling industry, and/or the State's revenue? share, if Massachusetts established, or the native Americans in Massachusetts established their own casinos.

For Massachusetts taxpayers and the state budget, in the effective fiscal year, that creates an instant $250 million budget/revenues shortfall; and, albeit affecting Connecticut's casino revenues, a state savings for Connecticut taxpayers of the same $250 million.