Ohio Just Can’t Stop Fighting Over Slot Machines

With the new report out that says the Learn and Earn campaign has overstated their numbers, there is much brouhaha in the state over the facts and figures of the slot machines measure. Learn and Earn is claiming that the slot machines will be bringing in close to a billion dollars in slot machine revenue earmarked for the scholarship campaign. With these numbers, who would vote against it?

The new report says that there is no way however, that those numbers can be supported. They say that less than 40% of what they are promising will actually come true. They say that opposed to the $853 million that the backers are claiming, it is actually more like $324 million instead. They say that the 31,500 slot machines that Learn and Earn is counting on bringing in all that slot machine revenue would only really be about 10,035 slot machines – as that is all Ohio’s population can support.

The slot machine backers tried to get the report banned and failed, and those that oppose the measure are passing out literature showing the disparity in the numbers from the slot machine group. Even Charles Ruma, the Chairman of the group thinks the numbers are inflated, but he thought they were more like $700 million as opposed to the $853 that the group was claiming.

The group says that since the Office of Budget and Management report to Governor Bob Taft, who doesn’t want the slot machines, that they are basically lying about the numbers, and that Ohioans will be gambling much more than the report says they will. The OBM stands by their figures, and says that they actually think the numbers will be lower than they have predicted.

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