Vikings Need Slot Machines for Stadium

Minnesota allows gambling within their state. They allow card games at their tracks, and they say that their residents enjoy the games. However they do not currently offer slot machines at their tracks. This of course is something they are looking to remedy through a constitutional amendment to add slot machines to the state’s two horseracing tracks.
 
Rep. Tom Hackbarth wants to bring in slot machines to the tracks, but unlike many other states where they plan on having those proceeds go to something important like education or senior programs, Hackbarth wants to see his revenues go toward a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings football team.
 
Residents are upset to say the least. Many of them feel that the National Football League’s teams don’t have any loyalty to any of the states in which they play so why should they use slot machine revenue to pay for a new stadium for the team. They say that if the team gets a better offer that will just leave and go elsewhere. Their argument is that if they are going to bring in additional gambling in the form of slot machines to their state it needs to go for something important like education.
 
Many of them are upset that the idea of slot machines is even being considered as they say that they are notorious for creating gambling addiction. They say that any amount of revenue that would come in from these machines would not be worth the problems that it would bring with them.