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Middle And Upper Lottery Ticket
1,692 wordsPolicy-makers are assessing the advice from Kenny Rogers, "You got to know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um, know when to walk away and when to run. " They are trying their hand at new and old forms of gambling in the hopes of generating additional revenues. One of the revitalized ideas of the past is to legalize gambling on historic riverboat replicas. Yet riverboat gambling won't be restricted to the Mississippi, but will appear in towns like Gary, Indiana and even our own Jefferson Cit...
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Legalized Gambling Las Vegas
1,161 wordsHave you ever wagered on a game? If so you were gambling and should have been fined. Gambling should be legalized in the state of Florida. The lawmakers, who have decided that it is evil for you and me to gamble, have justified it as a means to scam billions from citizens in order to compensate for their mismanagement of tax money. First they waste what they collect in taxes and then recover the wasted billions with gambling scams to get more, much more. Adding insult to injury, they pass laws t...
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Compulsive Gamblers Illegal Gambling
1,650 wordsGambling, while it lowers taxes and creates jobs, it also causes addicts to lose money and therefore creates a higher crime rate. Gambling was a popular pastime in North America long before there was ever a United States. Playing cards and dice were brought over by both the British and the Dutch. By the end of the 17 th century, just about every country seat in colonial America had a lottery wheel. Cockfighting flourished throughout the countries, especially in the South. Bear Baiting was also a...
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Casino Gambling High Court
1,047 wordsRunning head: CASINO GAMBLING PRO OR CON Should Casino Gambling Be Prohibited? Although most people gamble for recreation, commercial gambling is not just another form of recreation. It reduces human desire and imagination to a thirst for action and a relentless dependent hunger for money. Gambling is an ancient activity, but in America, land of the slot machine and the instant lottery ticket, it is part of a vastly growing wide spread story. It is a story of immediate gratification and spiritle...
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Compulsive Gamblers Illegal Gambling
1,728 wordster> Gambling, while it lowers taxes and creates jobs, it also causes addicts to lose money and therefore creates a higher crime rate. A Quick History of Gambling. Gambling was a popular pastime in North America long before there was ever a United States. Playing cards and dice were brought over by both the British and the Dutch. By the end of the 17 th century, just about every country seat in colonial America had a lottery wheel. Cockfighting flourished throughout the countries, espe...
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Las Vegas Legalized Gambling
1,601 wordsAmericans are familiar with the nations major addictions: narcotics, alcohol, and tobacco. Society has spent countless millions of dollars warning about these substances, however another addiction that receives far less attention is sweeping across America. This addiction is having a major impact on the college campuses across our nation. The executive director of the N. C. A. A. , Cedric W. Dense, in his 1997 State of the Association address called gambling the most serious threat facing interc...
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Money Spent Gambling On Sports
2,457 wordsMoney Spent Gambling on Sports There are several major addictions faced by people in America, among which it is possible to mention tobacco, alcohol and narcotics. Society spends enormous amounts of money to prevent these addictions; however there is another one that deserves much more attention than it currently receives and that is sports gambling. At the heart of the gambling problem on college campuses is college sports gambling. Gambling on college sports has two major impacts. First, gambl...
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Law Enforcement Officials York Random House
2,827 wordsGambling Legalization The legalization of gambling has become one of the most heated social issues that Americans have to face nowadays, and it has triggered a lot of controversial responses from various circles. While some people claim that legalizing gambling is the only way to control this growing industry and receive money from it, others truly believe that it is unethical and inefficient to legalize gambling. The introduction of online gambling has contributed to the debate significantly, s...
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State And Local Legalized Gambling
1,807 wordsMany factors have influenced the rising crime rate, some being, increasing use of drugs, increasing population, and decreasing morals. America must find ways to decrease the crime rate legally. One question often going hand in hand with decreasing crime rate is would legalized gambling decrease the crime rate? During the late 1980 s and early 1990 s slow economic growth, cuts in federal funding, and growing public needs forced state and local governments to seek additional sources of revenue. Mo...
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Casino Gambling Local Businesses
656 wordsA major economic issue was recently brought up I Niagara Falls concerning casino gambling and it s legalization. Gambling is an economic solution for Niagara Falls because of many reasons. If Niagara Falls was to allow gambling, there would be a yearly revenue of millions of dollars. Thousands of tourists visit Niagara Falls each year to see the Falls. In return, casino gambling would be used to benefit the city of Niagara Falls. Across the boarder in Niagara Falls Ontario, casino gambling has b...
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Legalized Gambling Las Vegas
1,172 wordsHave you ever wagered on a game? If so you were gambling and should have been fined. Gambling should be legalized in the state of Florida. The lawmakers, who have decided that it is evil for you and me to gamble, have justified it as a means to scam billions from citizens in order to compensate for their mismanagement of tax money. First they waste what they collect in taxes and then recover the wasted billions with gambling scams to get more, much more. Adding insult to injury, they pass laws t...
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Billion Dollar Industry Legalized Gambling
2,131 wordsLegalization of Gambling in Ohio The words Casinos and Gambling are often associated with gangsters, prostitution, murderers, and all the illegal operations one could think of. Those kinds of stereotypes are picked up in movies like Casino and the countless other gangster and casino related movies that are based in the 50 s, 60 s, and 70 s, but that was then and this is now. While there may be some vestigial ties between organized crime and casinos, gambling is now big business (Weissman 1). The...
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Compulsive Gamblers Las Vegas
3,550 wordsAmericans are familiar with the nation s major addictions: narcotics, alcohol, and tobacco. Society has spent countless millions of dollars warning about these substances, however another addiction that receives far less attention is sweeping across America. This addiction is having a major impact on the college campuses across our nation. The executive director of the N. C. A. A. , Cedric W. Dense, in his 1997 State of the Association address called gambling the most serious threat facing inter...
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