It was recently reported that since bills proposing to collect taxes in Louisiana to fund the state’s yearly payment to the New Orleans Saints, the local NFL team, are still delayed, the House authorized another suggestion: slots.
Although Governor Kathleen Blanco backs the tax bills, encouraging tax increases on products and services related to hotels, football tickets and rental cars, so as to pay the Saints, local legislative authorities have other plans for the money.
Representative Cedric Richmond proposed installing slot machines at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans. If the Jefferson Parish voters, neighbors of the Airport, approve the suggestion, part of the revenues generated by slots would be allocated to Louisiana’s contract with the team.
In case Richmond’s bill passes, slots would be installed on the premises of the Airport, however, only in regulated and enclosed areas. Slot machine revenues would likely more than cover the estimated ten million dollar shortage in the in the state’s payment to the Saints.
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