Bill is Signed by Governor Giving State More Slot Machines

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed a deal that would allow more slot machines to come into the state. Quinn signed a bill that would allow thousands of slot machines to inundate their state and now they will be located within restaurants and bars across the state. The governor says that the money that is coming from these slot machines will enable the state to finish major funding projects that have been cut by a too poor budget.
 
The board now has to come up with regulations for the slot machines as they don’t currently have any. They have two months to come up with the new regulations and once the slot machines are up and running the state will get 30% of the revenue that comes in from them.
 
Under the deal the state could bring in a maximum of 77,000 slot machines, which is a significant increase over what they offered before. In addition to figuring out how the slot machines are going to run, they have to find out how many they want to allow in each parlor.
 
Illinois is just like every other state who feels that the addition of slot machines is going to solve all of their problems. They should realize by now that this is not necessarily the thing they want to solve those problems and that cutting the budget is probably a better idea. Sooner or later they will figure it out, let’s hope for more sooner than later.

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