The cost of legalized gambling in the United States outweighs the benefits. i need arguments for and against.?

Question

The cost of legalized gambling in the United States outweighs the benefits. i need arguments for and against this topic for compition so please help me and contact me if [e-mail]..thnxx and please i need sources too...that will reallly help..especially if ur an experienced debater

Answer 1

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/gambling.html http://www.slate.com/id/2082526/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/gambling/pdf/gambling_report1.pdf http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/gambling.html http://vaprogressive.com/?p=1471 http://www.swordofthelord.com/osb/showitem.cfm?Category=170 http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=jud+14&version=kjv&showtools=0

Answer 2

Well, the choice of the words "legalized" and "benifits" are kind of biased toward prohibition. What you should be asking is whether the costs of legal (end word here) gambling significantly outweigh the costs of prohibition and enforcement.

Another point: There are many countries where governments are supposed to take any kind of preventative measure possible in order to protect its subjects from themselves. People who live in the U.S.A. and crave that kind of treatment from the State should move to any one of the many countries in the world where the State is nanny. They shouldn't try to impose the authoritarian world's standards on what has always been *supposed* to be a free country!

Guy above me: Why should the government run gambling? That puts a vested interest in low math skills, as you said. But if they just stayed out of it entirely, that interest would not exist.

Answer 3

Legalized gambling is fun for a lot of Americans whether they win or lose (just as long as there not betting the juniors college fund or the mortgage). And you can't measure the enjoyment factor so you will never really know if the benefits outweigh the costs. If most American gamblers aren't losing their shirts & states are pulling in a lot of tax dollars I see no problem with legalized gambling in the US. Plus they'd probably move to illegal gambling if they couldn't do it legally and that is a much bigger problem.

Answer 4

yes
people that gamble often cannot afford it or do not understand the odds against them.
a government that runs gambling or allows it has less incentive to teach the citizenry good math skills, which is bad for the economy.
some peole get addicted to gambling and can lose everything and end up on welfare.

the ONLY benefit is short term tax revenues
in the long term it costs much more

Answer 5

I haven't come up with anything for this topic, sorry. Good luck at your tourney.

Answer 6

yes most people do gamble and don't have a nough money