Today, 41 states have some form of casino gambling, and all but 7 have a lottery.
Of the 562 federally recognized tribes in the United States, according to the National Indian Gaming Association, 224 of them offer some form of casino gambling.
And, of course, some form of casino gambling is legal in more than 30 states, and even local governments advertise gambling services when states encourage people to buy a lottery ticket.
Yet gambling revenue in Atlantic City has risen reliably year after year, as it has in Las Vegas and in virtually all the 30-plus states where some form of casino gambling is legal.
Forty-two states now have some form of casino gambling.
"Few of us will ever have the experience, as Trump did, of having Daddy-O bail out our struggling enterprise with an illegal loan in the form of casino chips".
Trump, like Romney, represents almost everything that's wrong with the American economy today -- an unprecedented amount of wealth and power at the very top, widespread insecurity and declining real wages for everyone else, and a form of casino capitalism that places huge bets with other peoples' money and depends on everyone else to bail it out when the bets turn sour.
They closed shop in 2003 but old America is new again as the original plant got a second life in the form of a casino and an arts and entertainment district called SteelStacks.
On the face of it that should be easy: the most popular forms of gambling slots, lotteries and casino games are simply bad bets which players are likely to lose.But rational individuals should not be prevented from indulging in the odd speculative wager, whether on a lottery ticket or in the housing market.
Also affecting the ability of casinos to woo consumers is the continued growth of other forms of gambling that occur outside casinos, like buying lottery tickets and playing video poker at racetracks.
