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I'm still perplexed at how casinos are all over the US now. Growing up in the 80s, the story was 'gambling is bad and thus illegal everywhere, except horse trac

I'm still perplexed at how casinos are all over the US now. Growing up in the 80s, the story was 'gambling is bad and thus illegal everywhere, except horse tracks and for some reason Nevada'. Then of course casinos on reservations started opening all over, close to and even in the middle cities (Fond-du-Luth in Minnesota, for instance, is directly in downtown Duluth).

ifsothen 4y ago
Native Americans are allowed to operate casinos on their land, state laws to the contrary be damned. So if there's an Indian reservation near your cities, banning gambling is a waste of time and just gives the Indians a monopoly. Might as well make some of the money yourself.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago
  Keep the bans, let the Indians have that business if they want it. At least the bans keeps the casino out of my neighborhood.
  - ifsothen 4y ago
    I say take it from the Indians too.
coding123 4y ago
Welcome to the end of times. Same here, I remember a society that was fair, hard working and not filled with crazies.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  What country are you from?
jonathankoren 4y ago
Growing up in the Midwest, we got riverboat gambling, and watched the inevitable slide to just casinos. For those that aren’t aware, this was the basic history. Casinos are bad. Ban them. Casinos are bad, but maybe profitable. Let’s have a few, but we’ll put them on 19th century style paddlewheel riverboats, and make the boat go out into the river for an hour long cruise to limit access. Okay, the boat can remained docked, but it will still “cruise” for an hour before people are allowed on and off. Okay, so maybe the boat can actually be in an artificial pond, that’s only about a foot bigger than the boat, as long as that “boat in a moat” is within some small number of miles from an approved gambling river. These boats will also “go cruising”, and since they are boats, they will be regulated by the US Coast Guard, and be required to have enough life jackets for the maximum occupancy of the boat, even though if the boat were to “sink” it would only fall 12 inches to the bottom of the moat. Okay, so maybe the boats don’t have to “cruise” and people can just come and go from the gambling floor whenever they want. Okay. Let’s just have a regular casino in a regular building, nowhere near a river.

ifsothen 4y ago

Native Americans are allowed to operate casinos on their land, state laws to the contrary be damned. So if there's an Indian reservation near your cities, banning gambling is a waste of time and just gives the Indians a monopoly. Might as well make some of the money yourself.

MichaelCollins 4y ago
Keep the bans, let the Indians have that business if they want it. At least the bans keeps the casino out of my neighborhood.
- ifsothen 4y ago
  I say take it from the Indians too.

coding123 4y ago

Welcome to the end of times. Same here, I remember a society that was fair, hard working and not filled with crazies.

pessimizer 4y ago
What country are you from?

jonathankoren 4y ago

Growing up in the Midwest, we got riverboat gambling, and watched the inevitable slide to just casinos. For those that aren’t aware, this was the basic history. Casinos are bad. Ban them. Casinos are bad, but maybe profitable. Let’s have a few, but we’ll put them on 19th century style paddlewheel riverboats, and make the boat go out into the river for an hour long cruise to limit access. Okay, the boat can remained docked, but it will still “cruise” for an hour before people are allowed on and off. Okay, so maybe the boat can actually be in an artificial pond, that’s only about a foot bigger than the boat, as long as that “boat in a moat” is within some small number of miles from an approved gambling river. These boats will also “go cruising”, and since they are boats, they will be regulated by the US Coast Guard, and be required to have enough life jackets for the maximum occupancy of the boat, even though if the boat were to “sink” it would only fall 12 inches to the bottom of the moat. Okay, so maybe the boats don’t have to “cruise” and people can just come and go from the gambling floor whenever they want. Okay. Let’s just have a regular casino in a regular building, nowhere near a river.