I agree. I don't gamble myself, but in a free society it doesn't make sense to try to block people from gambling if they want to. Ironically, you can still gamble legally online with one of the biggest "casinos" in the world; the stock market. I definitely don't recommend placing any big bets there right now.

Investing in Wall Street is putting money into speculative enterprise which theoretically is a boost to the economy. Straight gambling merely dumps fools money into the gambling house. As we can see the theory has little to do with practice but it's a nice thought.

I support freedom and I agree with your right to gamble as long and anywhere you want to.

But we all know that actual gambling can ruin peoples' lives and it supports all kinds of shady-characters. So I just don't understand why it's okay for to have a Casino only if the government is in on the take 'for the schools'

Once government has it's cut, the rest of the money just leaves your community to go to Vegas or whomever owns the casino. Unless you're a gambling destination, they're a big siphon hose, removing money from your area; but we still encourage them (??).

If the online gambling places could figure a way to cut governments into the money, they'd be legal.

I still expect brothels to be legalized when they figure a way to cut government in on the profits too. Probably drugs, too.

Considering the "success" of the anti-drug program and the amounts of money swashing around it's reasonable to think that government is already taking a heavy cut.