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Gambling: Good Bet?

Gambling expenditures now top $550 billion per year. That’s more money than Americans spend per year on films, books, amusements, and music entertainment combined. Rex Roger’s, writer of the America’s “New Love Affair with Gambling,” explains that gambling has gone up about $1.5 billion per day or an increase of roughly 3,000% in the past 20 years. No matter how you look at gambling, it’s not going away. But yet year after year state voter’s turn down casinos in their state. Utah and Hawaii are the only two states that still have the “no legal gambling policy.” The other 48 states allow some form of legal gambling. The lottery, lottery tickets, and the stock market are the most common forms of gambling in today’s society. It has been estimated that around 82% of people in the United States have taken their chances on the lottery. If people have the right to go out and buy a lottery ticket and possibly win over $180 million, they should have the right to go to a casino, relax and play a game of cards. Although gambling has its downsides, all forms of gambling should be legal because it is your money and your decisions, if you are an adult your responsible for yourself if you win or lose, and it can gen

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