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...report of protests against gambling [NATION, April 1] hit the jackpot! Fast-paced, highly addictive casino-type gambling is being pushed onto citizens by the industry and certain political officials across America. Thanks to leaders like activist Thomas Grey, efforts to legalize casinos, riverboats or slots at tracks are being thwarted. The coalition to block gambling extends to many business groups that understand that the discretionary dollar goes only so far. As people spend their money on new gambling games, they are less likely to go to restaurants and movies. CHRISTOPHER J. MCCABE, State Senator Annapolis, Maryland...
However, under certain circumstances our magnanimous government seems to have a different opinion of gambling--when it gets a cut, that is. Foxwoods, in Ledyard, Conn., is the most profitable casino in the world. Private gambling is against Connecticut state law. Federal law, however, allows Indian reservations to do anything permitted by the state or national government. Since the state of Connecticut had already instituted a state lottery, it could not forbid the establishment of Foxwoods...
...seems here that all parties at least broke even. The state gets hundreds of millions of dollars per year, guaranteed, for basically doing nothing, Foxwoods gets to become the most profitable casino in the world via its monopoly, and gamblers have at least one good casino at which to gamble...
Throughout the hour-long debate, there were very few issues in which the candidates saw eye to eye,. Weld and Kerry agreed on whether to allowing them casino gambling in southeastern Mass. and Weld applauded Kerry's service in Vietnam...
Virtue may be its own reward, but cold, hard cash never hurts. Moralcrat Bill Bennett wandered into a Las Vegas casino after giving one of his standard America-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket speeches, when bingo, the Book of Virtues author hit the jackpot. A sheepish Bennett wouldn't say how much he won ($60,000, says a friend) or how long he played, but did want to explain: "I'm against state expansion of gambling, state advertising encouraging people to gamble, and gambling as a way to make a living. But adults on their own time...