Are Slot Machines a Done Deal?

There are many in the city of Philadelphia who are very upset with the idea of slot machines coming into the state. As a city they have worked hard to clean up a lot of the crime that has plagued them for years, and they fear that the addition of slot machines will simply make things worse for them. They maintain that any addition of slot machines is not a good thing for city, especially where they want to put them.

Some residents said that if they wanted to bring in slot machines that was fine, but that they had to limit where they put them. They wanted them put in the warehouse district – away from schools, churches and residences. However, the state disagrees and instead wants to put three casinos in their city and in locations that violate all three of those requests.

The city has also seen a flip flopping of their government officials as to who was on their side and who wasn’t. There were officials who fought along side them to keep the slot machines out of the major areas, who changed their minds and sided with the state instead just this year. They say that they have been threatened by legislators in Harrisburg and that they have not done well in the courts.

The state says that they will bring in millions in revenue, but with so many slot machines in the northeast now, there is no way that the numbers that have been previously quoted will come to pass. In fact, the way they stand right now, for every $2 that residents put into the slot machines, they will get $1 back in tax cuts – why not just keep the $2 and put it toward your own tax bill?

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