Many Residents Don’t Want Slot Machines

With the various groups in Maryland hoping to get their way in the slot machine debate, both have forgotten to ask how the voters feel about the machines. They know that they will be voting for it and are doing everything in their power to sway their vote – but many don’t really listen to their concerns.

A large majority of residents want to know how it will affect them. They know that the state is always looking for ways of making more money – and they think that this will simply be one more way of doing so. They want to see their government looking for ways of spending less, not covering the ways they are spending more.

They are worried about the social impact that the slot machines will have on their state. They know that the entire community can suffer when crime and addiction come in – as they quite often do when gambling is underfoot. It adds to an already shaky economy as more people find themselves putting their mortgage payments in the slot machines instead of the bank.

As alcohol usually accompanies slot machines, you now have gambling and alcohol together which never mixes well. This then leads to the breakdown of the family unit and eventually the community. They are afraid that bringing in slot machines might cure the government’s problems with spending temporarily – but eventually it is a debt they will all have to pay.

 

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