Democrats take away your liberty in the name of fighting poverty. Republicans do it in the name of family values.
Posted on 07/11/2006 2:03:12 AM PDT by freepatriot32
This issue should set some VERY interesting precedents in the courts.
Leave it to some phoney politicians to use some stick up the ass conservative "family values" group as a shield to try to prevent a working man from playing dollar poker or 10 dollar football wager on the internet in the privacy of his own home with his own money that the goverment on all levels has already taxed about ten times.
Its OK to these phonies if you wager on the worst possible odds of all,the state lotteries.This is precisley why republicans will lose the house this Nov.They can't control their "earmark" spending with someonelses tax money because of their own spending addictions.
...Heres a bet you republicans who vote for this ban.I bet you don't have a job after November and I'll bet I'll still wager online or in the street.
While I don't like gambling in general (remember someone pays for the lights in Vegas), what really angers me is this is being used as a "New revenue source".
Either legalize it or ban it, but don't treat it as a magic source of tax income that will allow the governments to further mismanage funds. For that reason alone, I hate the state lotteries.
It's good to see Republicans pushing the issues conservatives care about. Why should they waste their time defending the borders and cutting the federal budget when they could be preventing people from from gaming in non-government run venues and keeping steroids out of major league baseball? Politicians are scum.
Utterly depressing and utterly true.
This is mostly corruption. They're not getting a kickback from some Indian tribe's bagman in this case, and they don't like it.
Nice to see that we've finally finished that whole War on Terror thing if our government is going after online gamblers. </sarcasm>
There is no distinction in the final analysis.
Congress only wants to ban the gambling that it doesn't make any money on.
Very well stated.
Well, that's a good question. I should have "gambled" on low cost Wal-Mart stock when it was first offered, but I didn't. Seemed risky. I should never have "gambled" and sold my Xerox stock at $14, but I did. Seemed like a smart sale (it wasn't-it went ot $300 and split). The stock market is the biggest gamble of all. I weep now and then at my naivete at stock trading.
And you bid on commody futures.
This 'definition' could lead to auction board control and then onto ecommerce since auctions boards allow buy it nows in addition to bidding.
commody = commodity
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Its funny how the politicians took their sweet ass time getting indictments and convictions from the "Ken Lay casino" Enron.
I can tell you first hand I've never been screwed by a bookie.But I did get fleeced from Enron and stock brokers....talk about scams.
people have to got to start thinking critically ....
Indians pay out millions in campaign contributions, and they expect to be able to expand at will, and to savage any outside gambling that might take one dollar from their coffers.....
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