State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, is coming down hard against a proposed off-reservation casino in Kenosha, which he calls “a social ill” that will hurt Wisconsin's economy more than help.
Grothman said on Monday that despite the claim by the Menominee Nation that the casino they want to build would create more than 3,300 jobs, the benefit of those jobs would be canceled out by the harm to gamblers themselves.
“It’s a zero-sum game,” Gorthman said. “Society is not getting wealthier from fleecing innocent people.
“You will see jobs there in that casino. You won’t see all the jobs that...