O’Malley’s Slot Machines Will Help a Lot

Martin O’Malley takes office January 17th, but he is already behind schedule. The state is looking at huge budget deficits in the amount of $6.6 by 2012 unless he comes up with a solution – like slot machines or tax increases. Many think that if they had had the slot machines in already they wouldn’t be looking at such dire circumstances now.

Slot machine supporters believe that when the legislature was approached with slot machine proposals earlier they should have approved them, and they could have been generating income for them this whole time. Senate President Thomas Miller said that he thought they should have legalized the slot machines four years ago and that they would actually be looking at a surplus of money by this point.

However, others such as House Speaker Michael Busch say that the slot machines were not a viable option then, and he feels that they still aren’t. He says that he is not alone in that opinion, that many within the House are still opposed to legalizing slot machines. Miller agreed that there might be better ways of raising the money other than legalizing slot machines, but at this point the slot machines are one of the fastest ways of bringing in much needed income. He thinks that from a practical standpoint, there is no reason why they shouldn’t be considering the legalization of the slot machines, especially since no one seems to have a better plan just yet.



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