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Three of the US states- Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois- are approaching plans to promote gambling as a form of compensation for the steady decline in taxes.

Ohio lawmakers met last week to discuss and give the “okay” for a budget that disperses $933 million dollars of probable revenue from thousands of slot machines, which are set to be put in no later than May 2010 at statewide horse racing tracks.

Pennsylvania, if they decide to legalize video poker in bars, would get an estimated $550 million dollars each year, in accordance to a bill pending review in the state’s House of Representatives. Illinois, however, recently legalized video poker in taverns. This change will raise roughly $300 million a year to support the $31 billion in infrastructure improvements.

An analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott LLS, Brian McGill, said that we learned in Ohio and Illoinis that when it comes to desperate times, they call for desperate measures. And this is certainly true.

Ohio has seven race tracks scheduled to have slots installed, and the state plans to increase a great deal of its probable revenue from the $65 million dollars in registration fees that all of the tracks have to pay. By allowing the legalization of video poker, the state would be able to keep fifty percent of the probably revenue from the approximate 17,000 machines that are currently being illegally operated in bars across the state.

The Pennsylvania House acquired a $29.1 billion dollar budget for the financial year, and Democrats in the Legislature and Governor Ed Rendell have recognized table games and video slots as possible sources to acquire an advance of $750 million dollars each year that will be directed towards the use of college education and tuition aid.

McGill also said that in relation to the state being so desperate for possible revenue; it’s plausible that a bill would be able to find a lot more support moving ahead.  In addition, he feels that the Pennsylvania situation is yet just another example of states in the need of revenue which is making them consider the expansion of gaming establishments.
In Illinois last month, gaming revenues fell eleven percent in comparison to 2008 revenues, Joseph Greff, who is a JP Morgan Case & Co. analyst, had said in July.

In the state of New Jersey, Atlantic City revenues have decreased more than 15 percent in comparison to last year, said the Casino Control Commission in New Jersey in a report that was taken on July 10.

One would think that all this would make gaming an untrustworthy source of income, with revenues steadily declining and a rumored strike in Atlantic City, but legislators are hopeful that the gaming industry will pick up and provide the extra revenue these states need.