It's time to legalize ALL gambling
John Stossel makes the case for legalized gambling in the US:
For self-responsible adults, gambling can be fun and harmless. A free country is supposed to treats adults as though we are self-responsible. Government should let us learn from our mistakes rather than treat us like children.
I couldn’t agree more. I don’t need the government “taking care” of me and deciding what’s good for me and what’s not.
Stossel also notes the government’s hypocrisy:
Despicably, while government outlaws private gambling (at least that which competes with the well-connected casino interests), it runs its own gambling operations: state lotteries. And what a scam they are! States offer terrible odds. The evil casinos take about 1.4 percent of each bet at the craps table. State lotteries take 50 percent of each bet. Compounding the damage, states spend tax money to promote their lotteries to the poor, who are led to believe that the lottery, rather than hard work, is the route to becoming millionaires. Rich people buy few tickets.
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In “On Liberty,” John Stuart Mill wrote, “Over himself and over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
Sovereign. Hear that, busybody politicians?
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like anything else in life, when indulged in with discipline and in moderation, gambling can be fun and enjoyable. Living in Vegas, I have seen way too may people chasing their dollars and losing everything. It can get very sad. Self-control
true. self control..some people have it, others need it beaten into their brains…with a rolling pin.
I like to gamble. I don’t have enough money so I don’t do it often and when I play online its at that ‘monopoly money’AKA ‘play money’ tables.