If I have understood correctly, the CM's budget
1. Increases casino license fees
2. Decreases substantially entry fees
3. Plans to enact legislation to prohibit entry to casinos to
residents of Goa and any individuals below 21 years of age
This is similar, though not identical, to the approach adopted by
Singapore. After an acrimonious public debate on the negative effects of
gambling on the country's citizens, the Prime Minister who is on record for
stating that gambling would only be allowed over his dead body, finally
approved the operation of casinos in the country - the one at Marina Bay
inaugurated in 2010 is an architectural marvel. The country wanted to divert
to Singapore substantial sums that are left behind in Macau and elsewhere by
affluent gamblers primarily from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, avoid
the pitfall of illegal gambling that interdictions typically trigger (in
analogy to alcohol prohibition in the US and India, for example), and
discourage locals from visiting these casinos. Singapore's legislation
1. Allows the operation of 2 (I think) casinos and levies hefty
license fees
2. Entry is free for non-Singaporeans since the objective is to
encourage them to spend but Singaporeans have to pay a hefty entrance fee of
100 Singapore dollars
3. A family can apply for a prohibition of entry to a casino of any of
its members if his/her patronage of a casino is found to be detrimental to
the family's interests. I do not know how this is implemented in practice
but no one takes a Singaporean law lightly.
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