Fraternal Groups Want Slot Machines 

Many people don’t know that places like the Veterans of Foreign Wars or the American Legion Posts raise money for other charities. They spend their years doing fund raisers and things that will help them bring in money and then they give the majority of that money away. Sometimes it is needy families, sometimes it is children in hospitals – and sometimes it is simply getting toys for Christmas. They are worthy fundraisers. 

But in this economy it has gotten much tougher for them to raise money so they are constantly looking for ways of doing that. Many of them do a kind of gambling night with all of the proceeds going to charity, but as more states have allowed slot machines to come in it has made it less popular among residents to go to the smaller locations to play. So they would like to do something about that – they would like their own slot machines. 

It would seem that if the VFW and the AL are offering their proceeds from their slot machines to these charities – that is a lot more worthwhile than paying to keep a casino open. Not that they won’t still get the majority of the money that comes into the state slot machines, but at least the charities will have a fighting chance.  

Without the slot machines they don’t stand much of a chance at all as all of their gambling proceeds are going to the numerous casinos around instead. It would not take much for places like this to be able to offer the same thing that the for profits are offering only on a smaller scale.