Some church groups hold that gambling is sinful. Newspapers often rail against its iniquities: the Detroit News recently warned that legalized gambling can only create a great "assemblage of shills, touts, confidence men, fast-dollar operators and freebooters." Politicians piously denounce gambling as a creator of corruptness. Yet for all that, legalized gambling is booming across the U.S., and for a simple reason: the revenue-hungry states have discovered that gambling, though it may be wicked, produces money that is as good as gold.
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