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Some of us like to gamble. Americans bet a hundred million dollars every day, and that's just at legal places like Las Vegas and Indian reservations. Much more is bet illegally.
So authorities crack down. They raided a VFW branch that ran a poker game for charity. They ban lotteries, political futures markets and sports betting. They raid truck stops to confiscate video poker machines. Why?
On my Fox Business News show tomorrow night, Chad Hills of Focus on the Family (www.focusonthefamily.com/) says: "These machines have been shown to be extremely addictive. That's a huge concern,...
Leave the Gamblers Alone!
That being said, Stossel is wrong when he offers up that old argument that banning an activity does not reduce the amount of it.
When Prohibition was in effect Americans did consume a lot less booze than they did before or after. The book A Measured Century is one good souce of info on that. If heroin is legalized the amount of heroin use will go up.
If all speed limit laws were repealed the average speed of cars on our highways would go up. (And I'd be one of the people driving faster.)