Gambling
... If so you were gambling and should have been fined. Gambling should be legalized in the state of Florida. ... First they waste what they collect in taxes and then recover the wasted billions with gambling scams to get more, much more. ... Gambling as with most ideas came from Europe. ... Some colonists such as the Quakers and Puritans lost little time in enacting America’s first law against gambling in 1638(Shamos 103). Gambling continued in the form of lotteries, which supported most schools and public works. ... George Washington at Valley Forge, where men were desperate for food and morale was low among the troops, gambling was a daily activity (Shamos 103). ... As America grew gambling (casino) grew as well. ... The state passed laws that year legalizing gambling. ... Las Vegas was like no other; it replaced currency with chips, around the clock gambling and nearly a total absence of clocks. ... In 1978 the state of New Jersey legalized gambling (Cardoza 15-17). Does gambling help our economy? When gambling was approved in New Orleans it created 15,000 new jobs and brought in 25 million in city taxes. ... When South Dakota needed $400,000 to replace water lines and another $50,000 to shape up a failing wall on the reservoir they turned towards gambling.