Among the most hotly debated components of the proposal was a plan to overturn the worldwide ban on whaling , in place since 1986 , by allowing legalized hunting of whales by iceland , norway , and japan the last three countries still hunting whales commercially .
The vast sums spent on legalized gambling more than $ 90 billion a year , or about nine times hollywood 's annual box office receipts would galvanize the flagging economy if used more efficiently , says john kindt , a business professor at the university of illinois .