[HHFi]

I heartily agree with your assessment of the modern GOP and think they are throwing away their majority with both hands. From sprialing interest rates to doubling credit card payments to meddling garbage like this and the ridiculous new FCC fines, they seem to be targeting the same average, middle-class working people who put them into power.

That said, I think you have to be a stone idiot to give an online casino your credit card number and gamble over the Internet. If anyone wants to gamble that badly, just mail your money to me, and I'll offer you the same odds of getting any of it back.

[seacapn]

Some of these online casinos are publicly-traded companies in the UK; they are subject to pretty heavy government regulation over there. The US government could have had a chunk of that revenue in the form of taxes. But Congress sold out to horse betting interests and other land-based casinos, and so, here we are.