Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Legal gambling begets more of the same in states that fear they will lose money if they do not devise new ways of wagering. Illinois, for example, operates a giant lottery that is believed to siphon much money out of neighboring states. But, fearful that some cash might eventually flow back to Iowa, Illinois House Democrats have recommended starting roulette, blackjack and dice games on twelve paddleboats cruising six rivers that flow through or past the state...
Even Indian tribes are raking in money by conducting legal gambling. Congress last fall passed a law making it easier for Indians on reservations to institute any type of gambling that is legal in the states where the % reservations are located. The most popular reservation game is high-stakes bingo. Near Franklin, La., 1,200 people every Saturday night jam into a $2 million bingo hall built last September on the Chitimacha Indian Reservation; that is four times the number of Indians living on the reservation. Each player pays a $45 admission fee and gets twelve bingo cards. The payoff...
...Legal gambling also prompts more illegal wagering. It was once thought that lotteries and other state-run betting ventures would pull money away from ghetto numbers games, horse parlors operating behind candy-store fronts and the like. But the illegal games usually flourish alongside the legal ones and sometimes even piggyback on them. One example: since the Illinois lottery began daily drawings, Chicago numbers operators have adopted the state's winning number as the winning number in their own daily drawings. Since the state number is regularly aired on television, the numbers runners are saved the trouble of calculating...
...there is one opinion on which both gambling experts and ordinary bettors are in unanimous agreement, it is that state-sponsored gambling has been the driving force behind the huge increases in all types of wagering, legal and illegal. Legislators who approve lotteries, legal horse-betting parlors or riverboat gambling are spreading the message that wagering is respectable. "Gambling has been part of every known society," says Dr. Eric Plaut, vice chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston, Ill. "What has changed in the past decade is that it is now publicly...
Bush -- and the West as a whole -- should go farther. Poland and Hungary are striving toward a societal ideal based on more than economic and democratic reforms. The components: a legal structure that guarantees individual rights and the existence of independent institutions -- such as churches, trade unions, newspapers, political organizations, professional associations, private businesses -- that prevent the state from exerting a dominating influence in everyday life. Mark Palmer, America's energetic Ambassador to Hungary, argues persuasively that the U.S. should follow Western Europe's example in shoring up this evolution by creating a web of social, political, business and economic...