| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Christie3498 (0)
10/06/2008 | I don't gamble...however there is a direct correlation between gambling areas and a dive in crime stats in those areas. so there ya go....
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 | M€G@N M@C (0)
10/05/2008 | it just hurts people
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 | Josh7535 (0)
10/04/2008 | I think it should be like alcohol and only be done in a responsible manner.
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 | Aesahaettr (0)
10/03/2008 | I think it's stupid...
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 | Marcelina (0)
10/02/2008 | Spread it thin all over like butter to even out the crime.
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 | McCHIDO (0)
09/30/2008 | WATS WRONG WIT GAMBLING??
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 | cowgirls don't cry (0)
09/29/2008 | I live in Montana!! We have a casino on every corner and usually 4 or five a block. lol I love it but I do see some negatives if people don't have common sense and self restraint.
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| Priest85 (0)
09/29/2008 | Freedom damn it... even if it is lose your $$, it should still be a choice, and not just limited to one nationality running the show in most areas...
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 | Mummy loves you (0)
09/28/2008 | Even the stock market is gambling
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 | J@ME$ (0)
09/27/2008 | I think that if gambleing was legalized it would lose what makes it so special to go to los vegas or reno or whatever and the idians would be screwed out of what little they get. I think that it should defidently stay in nevada or for the indians.
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 | bill4829 (0)
09/26/2008 | tax it ......fix the roads.
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 | Jay2391 (0)
09/25/2008 | The lottery is legal and it is a form of gambling. It should be legal and a percentage of earnings should go to cause that means well.
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 | irishgit (150)
09/24/2008 | I've done some consulting work in the gaming industry, and I while I have some reservations about legalization, I think it is better legal and regulated than illegal and unregulated.
The biggest problem for governments is that gaming revenue becomes addictive, and too often gets funnelled into general revenues, there to be pissed away on the mega-project vote buying extravaganza of the moment.
In my view, the revenues from gaming should be going into education, health care and other necessary social programs, which it usually does not.
One major upside of legalizing gambling is taking it out of the hands of organized crime. For one example, I can remember my father buying numbers from a numbers runner. I doubt, given the plethora of state and provincial lotteries, that the numbers racket exists in any significant way anymore.
The problems of addictive gambling are certainly real, but they will be real whether the games are legal or not.
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 | ValkyrieVoice (0)
09/23/2008 | I don't gamble, but I don't down the guy who does and I think it should be his personal choice.
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 | KenSue!! (0)
09/23/2008 | I personally don't gamble. I don't care to. But I know people that do that love it. Does it hurt society as a whole? I don't know. But if someone is going to get addicted and screw up their whole life, that's their problem and none of my (or anyone elses) business.
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 | Joy3843 (0)
09/23/2008 | could be good or bad seen both sides
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| Doctor of Madness (11)
09/23/2008 | If that's how you choose to spend the money you have earned, you should have the right.
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 | fb1438239506 (0)
09/22/2008 | When the Florida Lottery was introduced as an entertaining way to help contribute and defray some of the costs in providing schools with supplies and equipment, I felt it was a safe, acceptable alternative and voted it in. Now, regretfully, I see teachers who are having to purchase their own supplies and textbooks out of their own pocket, I have to wonder who really has stood to gain from any surplus? The Indian Casinos, such as the ones operated by the Seminoles still seem like a small price to pay and should be left alone by the whites as we are infringing on what was once the land belonged to them.
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 | Sheronda (0)
09/22/2008 | YOU GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO HOLDEM.........KNOW WHEN TO FOLDEM....KNOW WHEN TO WALK AWAY...KNOW WHEN TO RUN. YOU BETTER COUNT YOUR MONEY WHILE YOUR SITTIN AT THE TABLE..........THEY'll BE TIME ENOUGH FOR COUNTIN WHEN THE DEALINs DONE.
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 | ♥TABBY♥ (0)
09/22/2008 | It ruins lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 | Cara~Nina (0)
09/22/2008 | I compare gambling to porn.It also ruins lives.It's another addiction that no good comes from.Remember people "The love of money is the root to all evil"
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 | ♥ ACONN (0)
09/22/2008 | i could give a crap about gambling...
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 | XAgent (30)
05/17/2007 | It's a lucrative business that would add a nice buffer for any states economy.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (156)
05/17/2007 | I won on slot machines in Japan all the time. I see no problem with a little gambling.
UPDATE: You know who doesn't want to see gambling legalized? Indian Tribes. Why? Because it would break their stranglehold on it and then they would have to do something productive for society... (go ahead and call me a racist now)
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 | Victor83 (37)
03/07/2007 | I never understood why gambling is illegal anywhere. If you don't like or don't believe in gambling....don't gamble. Problem solved.
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 | abichara (63)
03/07/2007 | The benefits which legalized gambling provide any given community is highly overstated. Yes, it can create benefits for local governments seeking to expand their tax bases, but in the long run, it doesn't have much of an affect local economic development, at least outside of industries associated with gambling, like tourism for instance. And whatever benefits gambling may confer on a community are not necessarily worth some of its downsides from a social perspective, as Dr. Entropy notes. Some might argue that gambling is not a vice, but it can be addictive for a lot of people; indeed, it just so happens that those are the same types who go into bankruptcy over their habits. It also happens that increased rates of crime, drunkenness and fraud go hand in hand with gambling. For many municipalities, gambling may appear as the great savior, but it only creates more problems than it solves.
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 | Gourmand (11)
03/07/2007 | Casino gambling should be legalized. Gambling is already legal in the form of the obscene lotto where the odds of picking 3 numbers from 50 are 1/50 x 1/49 x 1/48 = a 1 in 117,600 chance of winning and they only pay you 3 to 1. In Vegas you'd get something closer to the real odds. The moral argument doesn't hold water as long as there is a lotto that nobody can win and takes an obscene vigorish.
Casino gaming gives people a real shot at winning with the casino take very low..let them play in a casino and outlaw the lottery IMO!
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 | DrEntropy (40)
03/07/2007 |  Hard to say. If legalized and well-regulated, you can tax the s**t out of the casinos and use the money for public works and social programs. This sounds great, but what you basically end up with is a highly regressive tax system that supports teachers and bureaucrats (or wasted on white-elephant mega-projects, as Irish notes) by further pauperizing poor and stupid people. And while the industry likes to present gambling (or gaming, as they like to call it now) as a harmless indulgence, legalized gambling is closely associated with higher rates of crime and personal bankruptcy. And the idea of struggling rust-belt/poor-south communities being saved by casinos is cargo-cult fantasy. In the real world, most of the money goes neither to taxes or the local economy, but rather massive, out-of-state gambling corporations. The best pro-legalization arguement is that people would gamble anyway, and the money would simply end up in the hands of organized crime. Unless it is very tightly regulated though (something that is hard to pull off, given the $$s the gambling industry can afford on PR and bribes) legalized gambling often creates more problems than it solves.
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 | trebon1038 (65)
11/30/2005 | Most states have some sort of gambling. Some have casinos, slot machines, on and off track betting, but some that don't have any of those do have a lottery.
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| Redoedo (41)
06/13/2005 | Personally, it's a matter of personal choice. If cigarettes and alcohol are legal, I can't see any reason against legalized gambling. Pick your poison.
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 | Jar-Jar Binks (17)
05/05/2005 | It's just a form of entertainment. Keep gambling safe and legal.
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 | LanceRoxas (41)
04/26/2005 | Once again, this should be left up to each state. Most states have some sort of legalized gambling in the form the lottery. Personally I'm all for legalized sports gambling in the state of New Jersey where I live. I believe it should be highly regulated- just like horse racing- and it would reduce a huge area of revenue for organized crime.
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 | texasyankee (22)
04/26/2005 | Personally I am not into gambling, I hate just the thought of wasting money in any form. If I go to six flags and I don't get to go on a certain amount of rides, I feel like they got one over on me. I particularly do not like the thought of perhaps my husband or one of my kids getting into this (my husband loves gambling) and some mafia,or whatever getting all of our hard earned cash. All gambling encourages is higher crime rate with killing over the addiction of gambling. Don't we have a high enough crime rate as it is, over illegal things? I hate to think how bad it would be once it was legalized. Keep it in Las Vegas and Atlantic city.
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 | Djahuti (57)
04/26/2005 | Again,I don't care if Gambling is legalized in all states or not.Maybe the People of each state should vote and if they want Gambling,give it to them and if not,fine.People will gamble,legal or not.It's a waste of Law Enforcement Personnell and taxpayer money to enforce this.
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 | CanadaSucks (50)
04/26/2005 | Not in all states. . .individual states should decide whether or not to have gambling. I personally don't like gambling - I think it's bad for the culture, but since I think the criminalization of pot is a joke, I can't bring myself to the hypocrisy of making 'one' thing illegal while ignoring the other. Let some states, such as Nevada, continue to be gambling havens while enduring the problems that come with it. And definitely let the states decide for themselves. . .
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 | EschewObfuscation (71)
04/25/2005 | It does seem hypocritical that the states outlaw casinos then use lotteries for their revenue generation. How much vice is acceptable? Oh, enough to pay for the graft and pork approved by certain state legislatures, I see. Oh, but it goes for education? Right. But, I thought gambling was wrong and immoral. I have a hard time seeing a difference between the abolition of gambling and the abolition of the consumption of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition was repealed, so should gambling. Let the government regulate it, as if they'd do a good job of regulating this vice, and let the urban downtowns become the social meeting places again. Most people gamble in some form or another, making it illegal just romanticizes it for them. And this ridiculous ruse of allowing the Native Americans (Indians) to own and operate casinos, give me a break, as if the revenue ever finds its way to the shamefully impoverished group of people.
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 | dpostoskie (7)
04/25/2005 | There's nothing wrong with it.
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 | traderboy (26)
03/14/2005 | It already occurs in each state (office betting pools and off-the-cuff poker games are the most glaring examples in a blue-collar sense; company-sanctioned 401Ks and stock market trading accounts in the white-collar sense), so why not? Gambling has ALWAYS been with us, and to pretend it's an evil is denying a basic human right (the freedom to take a risk). Every turn one makes is a gamble, to some degree. Regulation can only go so far, but should be in place.
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