One of the graphic ads by CasinosNO! depicted millions of dollars streaming out of Maine and going to Nevada.

Excuse me. The Penobscot and Passamaquoddy live in Maine and, as far as I know, they are not planning to move to Nevada. So what if the developer had taken his portion out of state? He has every right to make a profit on his investments. Where do you think the corporate headquarters of other large businesses in Maine are located?

Seems to me Wal-Mart’s home is in Arkansas. Where is Staples, Home Depot, Best Buy, or any of the few remaining paper companies’ headquarters for that matter?

I remember ex-Governor King lauding the people who gave Wal-Mart millions of dollars in tax credits just to build their warehouse here. His reasoning was that the taxes would be made up by taxing the workers who would be employed there. Why is it always laid on the backs of workers to carry the load for corporate welfare recipients? Wait. Unemployment benefits are taxable.

The CasinosNO! people trotted out the slogan, “Maine, the way life should be,” as some virtuous ideal of sublime living that would be destroyed by the casino being built. A Maine that has all of its good-paying manufacturing jobs going oversees to communist or non-democratic countries, while hardworking Mainers are taxed out of house and home is not the way I think life should be. They should come down out of their ivory towers.

Thomas A. McDonald-Sawyer,

Auburn