Texas Needs to Say No to Slot Machines 

There are many within the great state of Texas that want slot machines to be legalized. They argue that the people within their state that want to gamble on the slot machines are still doing it, except that Texas is not getting any of the money for it. Instead, they are looking at that money going across state borders to the tune of millions of dollars a year. They argue that the money could be used to shore up their state budget and enable them to afford programs that they cannot right now.  

This is a long running argument in the state, because those that are opposed to slot machines, are fine with them taking their money across the state line. They say that not only do they not have to deal with the problems that come from offering slot machines in their state – like the crime that inevitably follows places like that – but they also don’t have to worry about supporting slot machine addiction in their state.  

They say that the slot machines are known as the “crack cocaine” of the gambling world for a reason. They say that the games are set up so that people feel like they are going to win, and so they keep putting more and more money into them, and every now and then they are rewarded with a little bit of money.  It is just enough to keep them hooked. 

Some think that they should allow slot machines just so they can improve their schools. The legislators say that there has to be a better way to make that happen, because they cannot in good conscience allow slot machine gambling addicts to fund their schools. They say that if there is more money needed for schools, then that money has to be cut from somewhere else instead.