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Baltimore Sun Editorial: A rigged game?
Our View: Slots ballot questions doesn’t quite pass the fairness test
While Maryland slot machine opponents may be guilty of sometimes overstating (and perhaps prematurely stating) their objections to the wording of this fall’s ballot question, they are also correct on this central point: The proposal’s claimed impact on education funding is misleading.
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That’s true, technically, but the constitutional amendment doesn’t require more money to be spent on education this year, next year or any year slots revenue might be available. A governor could just as easily redirect general fund money that would ordinarily be spent on education for other purposes and thus make the impact of slots revenue on schools meaningless.
- 1. · I would vote against slots if I knew that the money was going for education. The lottery was supposed to go toward education and you see what success that was. Put the money into infrastructure so that all age groups can benefit and not just K-12.
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