The libertarian case for a legal casino “industry” is easy to understand.  Less understandable is a case for legal marketing of casinos.  I’ve listened to enough commercials here in St. Louis to know:  They tell lies to people that they can predictably win.  The “no fraud” rule is completely violated by these establishments.

So why hasn’t this ever been used against casinos?  (Maybe it has and I just don’t know about the situation)  If it hasn’t, I suspect it is because the states have already set the precedent in their lotteries.  Long before I heard private casinos advertise, I head of state lottery marketing (I think years ago one in Illinois read, “Money really does grow on trees.”  What a great attitude to foster in people.  Surely the economy will just flower with this sort of thinking.).  Having promoted the fraud, the states are hardly in a position to keep others from doing the same.