Copyright 1999, all rights reserved worldwide. Considering the size of the tidal wave of legal gambling sweeping the nation, the Commission might as well have asked the oceans to keep still. But states selling lottery tickets do not have the power to keep their non-lottery neighbors as feeder markets.
States decide their gambling policies for themselves.
And South Carolina and Alabama have already decided. A competent graduate student could have done a better job working alone in a library for six months. The Commission started as a political ploy during the 1994 election by opponents of legal gambling. But gambling had become so widespread that a majority of Congress thought it was time for an objective study. Unfortunately, they failed to give the Commission sufficient time or money.