Slot machines proposed to fund education

Filed in archive Gambling General on March 25, 2006

Gamblers in Ohio, USA are campaigning for slot machines to be allowed to operate in the State's seven racetracks. Each machine can earn in excess of $67,000 per annum of which 30% could go towards the Learn and Earn program with the rest going to other good causes. If given the gohead, each race track would install 3000 machines which signals a potential total of $2Billion a year for the State. Critics have reminded slots advocates that similar schemes promised by the State lottery didn't save public schools.

I wonder why anyone would play the slots at a horse track?

more on this story