<Tab/>It's common these days to chatter about smaller governments and individual responsibility, but we are actually living in increasingly prohibitionary times. Choices properly decided by private individuals are now being limited or abolished by public policies. Hence the v-chip, government mandated regulations on TV, and attempts to regulate information flow on the internet. The latest target of prohibitionists is legalized gambling, which has enjoyed a decade or so of rapid …showed first 75 words of 720 total…

…showed last 75 words of 720 total…And further more the propagandists that are against it have no basis for it because studies have disproved all their theories. In closing the author of this paper would like to reiterate one point that legalizing gambling takes away more crime than causes and it is also good revenue for the state and federal government. Gambling is how our society all began, and if it worked thousands of years ago it can also work now.