Gambling not a real solution
A fairly predictable pattern has developed regarding the state budget. Spend. Spend. Spend. Expand gambling. Spend. Spend. Spend. Expand gambling. This week, Republican gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka proposed locating a casino in Chicago to add billions to the state coffers.
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Casino gambling facts:
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- The most popular form of charitable gambling is bingo. In California, bingo is the only charitable game that is legal.
- French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
- Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.
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