https://fahreunblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/05/giustificazione-del-paternalismo/
https://feedly.com/i/entry//cnXVr/5HNe2pDqTI3udBeVx4AbJSW9TNhacAl8h6Dc=_16db9f3cb74:14db5e:235c00fd
… Non si tengono in considerazione gli effetti potenzialmente positivi del gioco, quali la socializzazione, il diritto al sogno, la possibilità di alleviare la propria amarezza e la propria tristezza: non credo che tocchi allo Stato disciplinare anche i sogni e le speranze…
… People who live near casinos are going broke faster than people who don’t… more than double… 100 percent higher…
… The St. Louis Fed’s Thomas Garrett and Mark Nichols found that Mississippi riverboat gambling increases bankruptcies not just in Mississippi, but in counties outside the state where many residents gamble in Mississippi….
… Interestingly, other casinos— such as Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and so forth— didn’t have statistically significant effects on other areas’ bankruptcy rates…
… rate of business bankruptcies was significantly lower… 35.4 percent lower…business bankruptcy rates are lower when gambling is present, even after adjusting for the quality of the county’s economy….
… much if not most of the gambling industry’s revenue come from addicts. Grinols estimates that 52 percent of revenue at the typical casino comes from problem gamblers, while an Ontario study put the figure at 35 percent and a Louisiana one at 42 percent…
… positive changes include: young adults moving back to reservations, fueling an 11.5 percent population increase; adult employment increasing by 26 percent; and a 14 percent decline in the number of working poor. In counties with or near a casino, the employment- to- population ratio has increased and mortality has declined.”…
… The Baylor’s Earl Grinols, University of Georgia’s David Mustard, and the University of Illinois’ Cynthia Dilley found that 8 percent of crime in counties with casinos was attributable to their presence, a crime increase that cost residents, on average, $ 65 a year…
… The evidence on casino gambling’s distributional impact is much weaker than that concerning state lotteries, but there is extensive evidence that the latter amounts to a regressive tax, given that lottery ticket purchasers are disproportionately poor…
… one could reasonably argue the benefits in terms of jobs created and education funded outweigh the costs in terms of crime, bankruptcy, and problem gambling…
The arguments against gambling bans are similar to those against drug prohibition… but these bans do little to reduce gambling, and they generate underground markets that are corrupt and violent… state governments could legalize all gambling and then impose a sin tax, that is, a tax on gambling services that is higher than other tax rates. It is not obvious that gambling generates adverse effects that might justify a sin tax; most of the negatives associated with gambling—crime, corruption—result from gambling prohibitions, not gambling per se. The sin tax approach, however, at least raises this debate explicitly…
… I’m all for legalizing (zoned) gambling… The real question is whether we should tax gambling at higher…
Il vizietto del gioco è diffuso in ogni epoca e il governo non puo’ rimanere indifferente.
Lo è tanto poco che le sue politiche a volte sembrano schizofreniche: si va dal bando alla promozione in prima persona.
Il bando consegna l’ affare nelle mani della criminalità facendola prosperare.
La promozione di un vizio sembra invece contrario ai più elementari principi etici.
Perché non lasciarlo libero tassandolo?
In fondo chi gioca non è pazzo e la tassa potrebbe incentivarlo a smettere o a rallentare.
Già, chi gioca in genere non è né pazzo né malato, ha solo delle “preferenze estreme”. Ma chi siamo noi per cambiare le preferenze altrui? La vita non è poi così meravigliosa come si crede, e per molti abitanti della "valle di lacrime" anche un gratta e vinci puo' consolare. Sarà triste ma è comunque più realistico e meno pericoloso che credere di aver a che fare con una massa di malati mentali da accudire.