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Mark Etinger
Snack vending machines should be a more prominent source of income for cities and states. It might seem like a crazy idea at first but with taxes going up hardly being an option in most places now is the exact time where someone needs to engage in these sorts of creative solutions to budget crisis's. We need to run our city and state governments a little more business like so that we can take ourselves and our public entitlements out of the red. One great way to raise a little bit of cash is to have snack vending machines in parks and the like. Perhaps a few more drink vending machines in the court house. If you are on jury duty in the dead of summer are you going to go to the deli three blocks away for a soda or are you going to go to the drink vending machine? A strategically placed soda vending machine can generate a lot of money not just to decrease debts but to help school funding or police forces. With impending lay offs in so many states in the United States today it is prime time for the sort of innovative approach to government cash problems. It will not be a tax instead the governments of various cities and states will simply be getting into snack vending machines, a sure fire way to bring in some money. Ask any body who has ever tried out snack vending machines and soda vending machines to supplement money trouble. They will tell you about what an easy investment it is and how little has to be done to maintain it. If you go to a reputable snack vending machine manufacturer you can easily trust them to sell you a machine that works correctly and can withstand a certain amount of inevitable customer failure. These things are basically a fool proof investment. Obviously we are not going to solve all of our money woes with snack vending machines. That said we can definitely make some progress in cutting into our massive debts. It can also help us make sure that we can stay afloat without troublesome and hurtful lay-offs that could potentially derail any sort of recovery. Who knew a few bags of Skittles and a Dr. Pepper could be the future of government investment? I suppose it turns out I did. Don't worry though I only expect a little bit of the credit.
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