Essay on Legalization of Gambling in Ohio

Should sports betting be legal or illegal is a huge topic in the US. It’s a big argument over why or why not gambling should legal. There is one side that says sports betting should legal because of the money that could be made from the gambling websites and the places around the US. Then there is another side of the argument that says sports betting should be illegal because the integrity of the leagues would change.

The streets of Las Vegas Boulevard, which are littered with advertisements picturing naked girls willing to provide their services for a price, can be a scary place as someone takes a stroll. Drunk men stumble out of strip clubs and casinos, and girls in gaudy clothing and stilettos apply lipstick at their post. Nobody knows when someone lurking in the shadows might pop out with a knife to steal an unsuspecting person’s wallet. Or even worse, a friendly-looking stranger walking in the opposite direction could be waiting to come across the right person to drag into a dark alley, muffle their screams so that their cries for help blend into the noisy background of the streets, and do the

Legalized Gaming in Mississippi "Once given up dead, Biloxi this summer celebrates the 10th anniversary of a casino-driven rebirth that has been dubbed 'The Mississippi Coast Miracle' " (Biloxi, Miss., Celebrates... 1). In 1992 the first legalized gaming facilities opened on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The casinos gave Mississippi's economy the boost it has needed for a long time. Religious groups and other activists were against the legalization of gaming because they believed the casinos would root an increase of crime. Although casinos may bring significant problems, they pay a large amount of taxes and attract tourists, these revenues together pay for city improvements, better schools, and give

First of all, the ‘60s was a safer time for children to freely enjoy themselves without the constant fear of being harmed. The text states,” …the ‘60s were definitely safer, and better

In the second article, “Sports, Gambling, and Government: America’s First Social Compact?” Hill and Clark’s subject is the Mesoamerican ballgame as it relates to the development of government. Although, Hill and Clark do provide some primary images and sources, it is not strictly a biographical article. Because the text mainly focuses on the collection of data an evidence of the first forms of Maya government as well as the first ballcourt, the authors are interpreting and characterizing the subject of the text from an archeological standpoint. Archeology, the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture, is used quite often throughout the article to prove the authors thesis. One example of an

Proponents of expanded gambling in Ohio hammered home arguments yesterday that casinos would create thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue at a time the state's economy desperately needs relief. Opponents, however, said a measure on the Nov. 3 ballot would impoverish people who become addicted to gambling, drain profits from existing businesses and shortchange local governments by levying a too-low tax rate.

Over the past 100 years people have gambled on horse races, boxing matches, and card games. It has been in human nature to put a bet on a competative game to try and win money. Gambling today has become even more prominate in our society. All over the internet you can find cites to wager on a game or play poker. The problem people gambling on the internet is the revenue goes to companies who do not live in this country. Creating a place to gamble in all cities would create more revenue for our country. Furthermore, it would create more jobs and then populate smaller cities. To help out this economy we need to legalize gambling in the United States.

“In 2009, states generated $17.7 billion in net revenue from all lottery games.33 This represented just under 3% of overall state revenues from their own sources” It surprising to think that 17.7 billion dollars is only 3% of a budget. That’s just from lottery games. Gambling is important to the budget of a state because it can provide that added revenue that is needed to insure that they are about to provide enough funding to those departments that we may not think about, Such as the general fund, and transportation fund. Gambling is considered to be a sin tax in most states. I seems that they use these kinds of taxes to help pay for those funds that do not have a direct revenue. Rainy day funds along with the transportation and general funds

“Despite the economic uncertainty, riots and struggles, for us in the U.S. at least, the ’70s are considered a time of freedom, both creatively and sexually. I think there is a desire to go back to that,” said Patricia Mears,

Gambling in some form is now legal in all but three states, and 1997 estimates are that

Every week between August and February, millions of average American citizens break the law. During this time, millions of people wager billions of dollars on football games. This culminates in February with the Super Bowl where more money is wagered than on any other sporting event in the world. The vast majority of people who place these wagers live in states where sport’s gambling has long been illegal. Even those seemingly innocent NCAA office pools or friend to friend sports wagers are against the law in most counties across the state.

The author of this article talks about the betting history in the United States. According to the Wolohan, gambling on sport events is prohibited in every state, except four states while casino games and lottery are legal in every state, except Hawaii and Utah. The legal betting brings a lot of the money to the budget and can be collected as a tax revenue. Unfortunately, since the betting on sports is not yet legalized in every state a lot of betting occurs illegally and due to this reason, the government are not able to collect more money. Another problem which occurs due to betting is that person trying to arrange games with fixed scores and bet on those. This is a big problem for NCAA since student-athletes

Gambling in the United States has undergone a radical transformation in the past 30 years. (Fuller, 2010, p.517). What use to be restricted to a few states, we are now witnessing casinos operating in many states including, river and offshore gambling. Additionally, casinos are now located on many of the American Indian reservations throughout the United States.

Within the last century, representation of casino gambling has created controversy in some parts of the country, especially in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contrary to popular belief, academic research associates casinos and type of street crimes to affect the local residence and daily transit population. Street crimes account for all criminal acts recorded by law enforcement officials in the Atlantic City jurisdiction. Crimes such of this nature will be classified as first and second felonies along with misdemeanor. Casinos have been identified to trigger problems such as anti-family patterns, personal and business bankruptcy, ethical or moral decay and high rates of criminal activity.

Despite gambling’s popularity in these camps of settlers, territory legislature banned gambling of all forms, and threatened strict punishment if caught. Nonetheless, the games continued in secret and when Nevada became a state in 1864, the ban on gambling was lessened and eventually removed for most forms of games in 1869. (3) In May of 1905, Las Vegas was officially founded in Southern Nevada, where gaming activity was already pervasive. There was little government regulation on gambling in the period between 1869-1900, until the progressive movement began to look upon gambling as immoral. States began to pass strict laws banning all forms of gambling. Nevada was the last holdout, permitting gambling until 1909 before the same bans were enacted. (4) The Nevada State Journal wrote, “ Stilled eternally is the click of the wheel, rattle of the dice and swish of cards.” (5) “Eternity” lasted less than a week, as citizens of Las Vegas quickly started lucrative underground gambling operations. “ Games of chance were integral to southern Nevada in the 40 years preceding the ban…. a nation wide prohibition on gambling was not enough to eradicate gaming.” (6) Because Nevada was the last state to ban gaming, a large gambling population from other states settled in Las Vegas before the ban was enacted in Nevada. As a result, Vegas was filled with passionate gamblers from