It Was Never Guaranteed

The problem with basing your budget and your balances on slot machines is simple – you cannot guarantee that you will make the same amount of money each month and each year, so you can’t plan for the future. It is like a waiter planning his future on the amount of tips that he makes – he might make $50 three weeks in a row, every single night – but that doesn’t mean that the next night he can’t make $10.
 
With so many states putting their eggs in the slot machine basket, some experts are wondering what they are going to do if they don’t get the numbers back that they were expecting. With so many states adding slot machines to their line up they just aren’t considered as special anymore, and the money that used to be relegated to a few states is now spread across many.
 
But with all of these states depending on gambling as their only means of income, or at least one of their largest – when those numbers go down they are left scrambling to get the money from somewhere else. States should know better than to count on that income to solve their problems. Atlantic City is a good example – they planned on that income for years and now it is lower than it has ever been.
 
Each time a state adds slot machines their first couple of months are huge while everyone comes to check them out. The states then say that this is how much money they are going to get each month and are disappointed when it doesn’t work out that way. The states have to realize that even banking on a low number doesn’t guarantee you that the slot machines will even bring you that back.