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Opening Arguments

In the No. 3 slot

There's at least one area in which Indiana need not envy surrounding states:

Ohio Learn and Earn, the group promoting the slot machines, boasts impressive numbers. A maximum of 31,500 slot machines in nine locations would produce $2.8 billion in annual revenue, with more than $850 million of that dumped into a scholarship fund for Ohio students, the backers say.

To generate that kind of money, each of the gambling locations in Ohio would be need to be larger than the biggest slot parlor in Indiana - the country's third largest gambling market behind Las Vegas and Atlantic City, according to critics.

Ohio's slot machines also would have to bring in $247 per day each, an estimate Learn and Earn considers conservative considering slot machines in Indiana average $322 per day.

Dang, only third. One or two more casinos, and we could probably knock Atlantic City off for No. 2

Posted in: Hoosier lore

Comments

Bob G.
Mon, 09/25/2006 - 5:01am

We don't need gambling anymore...we have the TOLL ROAD LEASE....

But wasn't THAT a gamble????

Hmm...another conundrum?

;)

B.G.

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