Should all gambling be legalized?

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I can't believe I'm one of only two people who voted "No".  I can understand why libertarians would answer "Yes", but I thought that at least the populists (like Gov. Harry of Mississippi, Democratic Hawk, and Cosmo Kramer) would be against gambling.

This nation has too much gambling.  I'd like to turn the clock back to the days before gambling became mainstream in America.  The riverboat casinos, the Gulf Coast casinos, and the casinos on every Native American reservation should never have been approved.  State lotteries should never have been implemented.  What I really decry is the dependence of local/state economies and budgets on gambling.  It's a VERY regressive tax because most of the gambling is done by those who can least afford it.  Gambling promotes social problems like crime and broken families.  And for all the talk about getting people off welfare, gambling INCREASES the need for social welfare programs.