Patrick Proposing Fees and Slot Machines

Governor Deval Patrick has a list of things that he wants to accomplish in his new role and the amount of deficit that he has been left by the last governor is making it difficult. Therefore, he is coming up with some ideas on how to help him with that deficit and slot machines are definitely on the table.

One thing he is considering is to charge fees to those to commit crimes and those fees will help him pay for the police force. He says that since it is the criminals that are using so much of the manpower of the police, there is no reason why they can’t fund them. The criminals aren’t very happy about this, they say they already have too many fees that have been put on them, and their advocates say the same. However, truth be told, if you don’t commit a crime, you won’t have to pay for the police.

Patrick also said that he was planning on giving an increase in aid to the local communities, and wanted to know what they thought about legalizing slot machines. He said that he is considering legalizing the slot machines, but has not made up his mind, and he would like their input. He knows that if he does legalize the slot machines he will be bringing millions if not billions of dollars of funding into the state and thus assisting to eliminate the budget deficit.


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