Gov Ed Rendell’s efforts to pay for college tuition breaks by legalizing Video poker have not gone well with the residents of Harrisburg. The reactions border from skepticism to wait and watch attitude.

To install the five poker machines at bars, clubs and restaurant, Rendell is making a bet that he could influence the officials. As 50-percent tax would come from the machine which will help to tuition. Families whose annual income is less than $100,000, this aid will help them. For a couple of reasons, some lawmakers and observer said that it will be a tough sell.

“Bills to legalize video poker at bars and taverns have been introduced for at least two-and-a-half decades without becoming law. It’s unclear why the governor thinks this idea is more likely to win approval now than in the past,” Erik Arneson, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, wrote in an e-mail.

York College President George Waldner commented that private colleges have already introduced an opening effort against what he calls “the worst higher-education funding proposal I’ve ever seen.”

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