Slot Machine Casinos Fighting        

There are problems running amuck in the legislature of Indiana. There are those that think that the casinos and their slot machines need some sort of a tax break in this economy and then there are those that say heck no. There was recent legislation that would have allowed the floating casinos on Lake Michigan and the Ohio River to move inland. This way they could offer their slot machines to more people. However, the House made a move that they could not live with so Rep. Bill Crawford pulled his bill. 

He said that the House approved those slot machine casinos already inland to have part of their tax burden lifted, but not that of the other casinos in the state. Crawford said he took his measure off the table as he felt that it was not fair to the other casinos in the state. He said that he didn’t “want [his] name attached to anything that's unfair." 

There is a large portion of the population that would like to see the slot machines moved inland. They say that the competition from neighboring Ohio is too much and that this would allow them to bring in substantially more money for their slot machines. They said that they have several riverboats that are in serious trouble and by moving them inland more of their residents would have access to the slot machines and that they would be able to keep from going under. 

However, there were those that said that by allowing the riverboats to bring their slot machines inland it would be a further expansion of gambling and they are not interested in that happening. They said that they are in the water because the residents do not want slot machines all over their state, so out there they need to stay.