A new report says Wisconsin shouldn’t have to pay 240 million-dollars if a new casino opens in Kenosha.
The report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau says the “‘financial risk to the state” is not as big under the latest gambling compact with the Forest County Potawatomi as it was under the last. The old agreement with the tribe could have cost Wisconsin 243 million-dollars in compensation if a new casino opened within 50 miles of the tribe’s Milwaukee casino. The report says the new deal “significantly reduces” that cost, but it doesn’t have a price tag.
State Senator Van Wanggaard said new casinos in Illinois and Indiana also lower the future costs to Wisconsin because it will be tough to show that a new Kenosha casino is the only one taking business away from the casino in Milwaukee.
