NationStates Jolt Archive

Gambling should be legal outside of casinos. Currently the government has out-of-casino gambling illegal and punishable by law. The government has no right to tell us we can't gamble just because they aren't collecting tax revenues from it to make the government bigger. We have the right to gamble in as a leisure activity without being taxed and certainly not going to jail over it. It is not our business to meddle with the affairs of our citizens. It is their choice whether they want to go to a casino. A vote for this proposal is a vote towards a free market capitalist society and a vote against socialism.

Gambling should be legal outside of casinos. Currently the government has out-of-casino gambling illegal and punishable by law. The government has no right to tell us we can't gamble just because they aren't collecting tax revenues from it to make the government bigger. We have the right to gamble in as a leisure activity without being taxed and certainly not going to jail over it. It is not our business to meddle with the affairs of our citizens. It is their choice whether they want to go to a casino. A vote for this proposal is a vote towards a free market capitalist society and a vote against socialism.
I would take this issue to your government and not to the UN... As many nations control gambling as a means to augment taxes on their people so they would not want the UN getting involved in how they collect taxes and thus pay UN fees due as members of this great body.

We are not a capitalistic or socilistic state but feel the UN should not condemn either of these forms of government. Rather it is the place of the UN to work to keep the peace between them not divide them over an issue each may view differently and both use to gain funds to support government functions that benifit citizens.

"You can't force someone to be free."- My father in Real Life