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WHY SLOTS AT MARYLAND'S TRACKS MAKE SENSE FOR MARYLAND
They will provide thousands of new jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual economic impact.
Revenues generated by slots will provide hundreds of millions of dollars for state and local governments to meet service demands and fund spending initiatives on behalf of public education and transportation at a time when government budgets are under pressure.
Local communities will gain significant economic benefits from new jobs at the slots facilities, jobs created in the local economy, and expenditures in the local area by visitors to the slot facilities and by the tracks themselves, as well as through tax revenues from both gaming, property, sales and other taxes and fees.
Slots at the tracks will bring back to Maryland money that is now
going into slots in Delaware,West Virginia. and Pennsylvania.
Gaming expansion will only take place at the race tracks--where it already exists--under highly regulated conditions.
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