events, a ban on Internet gambling, and a ban on credit-card cash-advance machines in gambling parlors. The commission suggest raising the legal age for wagering to twenty-one, and taxing gambling revenues to pay for programs to treat problem gamblers. They also want restrictions on political contributions for people operating or planning to operate gambling facilities. The commission (1999) looks down on existing research on gambling calling it “flawed by insufficient data, poor or underdeveloped methodology, or researchers’ biases” (27). They also scorned at the attachment of money figures to some of the social problems caused by pathological gamblers saying, “ How can one calculate the ‘cost’ of the two children that died while locked in cars as their parents or caretakers gambled in nearby casinos?” (27). People who support gambling do not have enough evidence to prove that it is good compared to all the problems that come along. Many of these problems can be solved if all gambling was banned. One day the country might realize how bad it is hurting itself. ...
