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  • Darine Son, a cocktail waitress, serves beer to Bob Schank while he plays cards at a blackjack table last week in Parx Casino, near Philadelphia. The gambling house and nine others in Pennsylvania are providing thousands of jobs and raking in billions of dollars in tax revenue for the state. But there is opposition to the gambling on moral grounds. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Pa.'s gamble on casinos paying off big

    Just five years after its first casino opened, Pennsylvania now generates more tax revenue from card games and slot machines than any other state in the nation — and it isn't even close.

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  • "Everybody around here has a positive attitude about this. The people who gambled around here used to go Atlantic City. They were looking for something here," he said as he pulled receipts from the pocket of his jeans.

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