(Harrisburg) -- Pennsylvania's casinos are marking their fifth anniversary. The first slot machines first started chiming at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Wilkes-Barre in 2006. State Senator Tommy Tomlinson, a Bucks County Republican, says Pennsylvania is keeping those dollars that once went to New Jersey casinos. "I mean, they're scrambling now to try to recapture a large portion of their market, which was Pennsylvania," he says. "I mean, we were spending a lot of Pennsylvania dollars in New Jersey, and obviously, out west, we were spending a lot of Pennsylvania dollars in West Virginia and Maryland." House Gaming Oversight Chair Curt Schroder, a Republican from Chester County, says the Gaming Act has still not delivered on promises of property tax relief. He notes homeowners are only getting a break of a couple of hundred dollars or less. "When you're talking property tax bills of three, four, five thousand dollars and above in some areas, it doesn't make a dent," he says. Some $776 million went toward property tax relief last year, which was an average of about $200 per household statewide. Through the last fiscal year, slot machine tax revenue has totaled more than $4.6 billion in the commonwealth.










