Legalizing Table Games 

It seems like just yesterday that Pennsylvania residents legalized slot machines in their state. They felt that by bringing in slot machines the answer to all of their troubles would be taken care of. They brought in thousands upon thousands of slot machines to fix their budgetary woes, and many said that this would be exactly what the state needed. 

But it didn't take long for the state to start looking for new revenue as well. Now legislators are looking to bring in table games to bring in even more money. There has been a bill kicking around the government for a little while now that would legalize table games like poker and blackjack, and state legislators have decided to put much more of a push on the bill. 

With a massive budget shortfall in the state, Gov. Ed Rendell supports using revenue from table games to bring in more money. Most of the state's leaders as well as the government are fully behind the addition of the table games, which means it probably won't be long before it is in fact legalized. 

The biggest problem right now is that Republicans and Democrats are fighting over how much tax should be set on the table games. The new bill will be packaged with changes in the law that legalized slot machines, making the lines between the gambling industry and the public officials who regulated much clearer and more defined. They say that since they are making changes to the industry anyway, they might as well bring in the table games at the same time.

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