Arundel Slot Split

If legislators at any point thought that getting slot machines in Maryland might be easy, they could not have been more mistaken. The state seems about split on whether or not slot machines should be legalized, and now it seems that the Arundel community is getting involved as well.

With slot machines being considered on the November ballot to be legalized; those in Anne Arundel County are concerned about what it means for them. They will be, after all, the site of the state’s largest slot machine parlor.

Some say that it will simply bring in more crime and traffic and that there is nothing good to be had from inundating their community with them. Others say that the amount of revenue to be had from slot machines speaks for itself. They say that there are major economic gains to be had from them, and that they should be approved.

Those that are opposed to the slot machines say that there is a high amount of addiction that comes to the host of slot machine parlors – and this is a price their community should not have to pay. Others say that the money that comes from the slot machines can do a lot of good, and fund many programs that they are either struggling with or doing without.

There are four other locations that could get the slot machines as well, but Anne Arundel seems to be the most under fire at the moment. A slot machine facility could actually be built anywhere in the county, but it seems that the focus is on the area around the mall and the airport.
 

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