Should I get smarmy and start listing other ventures we can legalize to collect taxes, or can you figure out where that's going?
No need, this points out your hypocracy. You claim to be a capitalist but you are also interested in Govt. control of business when it touches something you consider immoral. The legal business of prostitution in NV does all the good things you listed as the community's benefit from business.
Employees of every business use thier earnings to participate in immoral vices. Your opinion is that business which provides a product you consider immoral should be restricted by govt. force.
"but you are fine with socialism when it is applied to what you consider immoral."
I am? What the heck did I say that makes you think that?
"which is unfair in that, had you WON, you wouldn't have shared it with the rest of us."
"The only way to legislate morality is a police state."
Baloney. Enforcement need not be done at that level.
Really?
So how much has the WOD lowered use, how much crime has it prevented?
How many crimes were committed by online gamblers that would have been prevented with moral legislation?
How well has the gun ban in DC kept the murder rate down?
Prostitution is virtually illegal so why is the porn business (paying people to have sex on camera and on video) a multibillion dollar industry?
Did crack cocaine exist before the War on Drugs, what about ice?
Is the use rate falling steadily across the country year after year?
Now tell me how big are the crack cocaine and porn problems in China, or Cuba, or N. Korea or Saudi Arabia?
Forced protection from Vice will never be freedom because only the individual can decide to be free from vice. If individual liberty is erased, so will be much of the vice. In order to eliminate vice, individual liberty must be eliminated.
Did GOD make a mistake when HE created you with total and complete free will?
Well, which the majority considers immoral, yes. You'll never convince me that people must be forced to tolerate smut because, after all, this is a free country.
""which is unfair in that, had you WON, you wouldn't have shared it with the rest of us."
That's actually communism. And a joke.
"So how much has the WOD lowered use ..."
66% between 1979 and its lowest point.
"Now tell me how big are the crack cocaine and porn problems in China, or Cuba, or N. Korea or Saudi Arabia?"
Exactly my point. How much of a police state do you want? Don't be bitching about the "failure of the WOD" then complain when the government cracks down on drug users.