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Illinois thinks it may have come up with a way to increase funding to their roads and to their schools – legalize more slot machines at their riverboats. They think that if they allowed the riverboats to add 6,000 more gaming positions – whether they are slot machines or table games – the state could see an increase in revenue.

The state’s Republicans think that the new slot machines would bring in $500 million more the first year and $450 million each year after that to pay for construction costs. However, the Democrats have yet to sign off any any sort of increase, and the House just decided to get rid of the state’s riverboats all together.

But lawmakers say that the billions that the slot machines could bring in are needed, and they are asking the Democrats to try and see it their way. Some think that the state is rushing to legalize more slot machines, when really there are other ways that they could be bringing in revenue. Some think that the money taken from the slot machines could go into a fund that would enable the state to pull from it to fund things that are needed.

However, some say that the idea of this general fund is good, but none of this will happen without the horse tracks getting slot machines as well. The most important part of the plan though, is to get their roads finished and their schools more funding.
 

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