State-Run Casinos

If state-run lotteries are a bad idea, as I have argued, then state-run casinos are even worse.  But they are starting to pop up.  Moral rot is at the root of all other rot.  Overextended abroad, collapsing within, how long can we last?  Bread and circuses are the people's pablum supplied by a government whose power and reach are its main concerns, not the common weal.