Casinos are booming at the time of pandemic so there's no downside for this since it can help people and it's beneficial to the economy also since for now the economic state is not really good and it's good to have a certain outlet where the government can take funds to use to fight the pandemic as well for the other things that needed to take care. And there's nothing wrong with regulation since if the casino is regulated the gamblers can assure that they are safety.
In terms of our country, I think there will be a negative result to this and this will be taken by the people as an insult since they think that our national government is not handling the funds that well. A lot of projects got cancelled is with the current issues and situations our country is facing, people are trying to point it all out that the government are the ones at fault why things are worsening so, yeah, there is that.
Well, the only ones that has been cancelled are those good project that will help the whole country to rise again because of this pandemic, and the ones that continues and has been approved by the Government here in Philippines are those shitty projects that should have been not the priority in the amidst pandemic.
In short, I bet even the taxes they get in the casinos are getting stolen as well by them and they just pretending to spend it to something shitty again but the truth is they are putting it in their bank accounts. Nothing's gonna help if the Government of a certain country is corrupt and very incompetent.
Not just good, it is one of the great projects or plan for the country as it will protect the people and will have a budget for such gruesome situations like what just happened. What I am trying to say here is that if they will be imposing more taxes to gamblers, people will be enraged since they want more taxes while they can't even handle those well. They should just let the gamblers do their donations, because I know a lot of them are willing to do that.