“You gamble and you lose it’s your fault.”
When I was young it was my understanding that gambling debts were unenforceable as being against public policy.
There was no upside for the government in having stupid people gambling away their paychecks.
But here people took out credit card
debt to gamble. So it’s not technically gambling debt, but credit card debt.
Indian casinos are the houses that SS built. Go out there on SS payday, and watch “those who can’t live without it” throw it away.
They tax the bleep out of cigarettes, chew, nicotine lozenges and vapes “to protect adult”, and keep it away from children, but gambling is no farther away than a McDonalds in most States.
“ When I was young it was my understanding that gambling debts were unenforceable as being against public policy.”
Tell that to Vinny from my old Brooklyn neighborhood. You bet and lost, he made sure you paid.