Second Thoughts about Slot Machines

The residents of Maryland are starting to wonder if they made the right decision in allowing slot machines to come into their state. For years they put it off, saying that it was not a good idea, and that it would bring crime and addiction to their state, and so slot machines would have to stay over the border. However, now that they have approved them they are thinking that perhaps they should have left well enough alone.

THe problem is that when they were voting in the slot machines, they were not actually thinking about what that meant for them in terms of where they would go. They were thinking that the slot machines would bring in a ton of money for the state, and they would help out many under funded programs like education.

Since voting them in however, they have learned that not only were the numbers inflated to where they probably won’t get the billions that they were counting on, but they were also not going to like where the slot machines were ultimately going to be placed. They never thought about actually having the slot machines, they only thought of them in the abstract.

Now Anne Arundel County residents are upset that they voted to bring in the slot machines because they are looking to put them at Arundel Mills Mall. This would put slot machines in the back yards of many residents who thought they would be much further away. In recent meetings to discuss the location of slot machines, residents have been overwhelmingly against the location. In order to bring in the slot machines zoning changes have to take place, and many residents are simply fighting the change so that they won’t have to look at them.

 

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