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Bush to sign bill to prevent Internet gambling
AFP ^ | Oct 02 | Staff

Posted on 10/03/2006 2:52:04 AM PDT by baystaterebel

US President George W. Bush this week is expected to sign a bill making it harder to place bets on the Internet, a practice which already is illegal in the United States. Bush was expected to act quickly after Congress approved the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act making it illegal for financial institutions and credit card companies to process payments to settle Internet bets. It also created stiff penalties for online wagers.

Billions of dollars are wagered online each year and the United States is considered the biggest market.

"It is extraordinary how many American families have been touched by large losses from Internet gambling," said US Representative Jim Leach, the bill's main sponsor in the House, in a statement after its passage early Saturday.

The bill's chief Senate sponsor was conservative Republican Jon Kyl, who, like Leach, has said he believed Internet gambling was a moral threat. He has called online betting as the Internet version of crack cocaine.

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""It is extraordinary how many American families have been touched by large losses from Internet gambling," said US Representative Jim Leach........."

Yes internet gambling is the number one destroyer of families Jim. Far and away more dangerous then say, alcohol, which is far less of a risk to a college kid or his family. Yup Jim, I sure feel real safe now.

And I know that late some night you will attach a rider onto some important bill to ban alcohol which has to be next on your list.

Right Jim?

Jim?

1 posted on 10/03/2006 2:52:05 AM PDT by baystaterebel
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To: baystaterebel

How many more American families have been harmed by a runaway Congress without term limits and a permanent judiciary?


2 posted on 10/03/2006 2:54:56 AM PDT by Dahoser (God bless our troops and at home defenders.)
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To: baystaterebel

I don't gamble but, why exactly is the Federal involved in this?


3 posted on 10/03/2006 3:01:13 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (Religion of peace my arse - We need a maintenance Crusade)
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To: baystaterebel
We need to ban gambling to help people keep their money. As though the government never ever takes it from us.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

4 posted on 10/03/2006 3:03:59 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Dahoser
"A 2005 survey by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 26 percent of male college students gamble in online card games at least once a month, while nearly 10 percent of all college students gambled online at some point last year. "

Guess which party these kids WILL NOT voting for in the future?

I swear the current leadership of the Republican Party actually enjoy being out of touch.

Seriously, what did they think they would accomplish with this bill other then appease a small minority of their base?

Idiots.
5 posted on 10/03/2006 3:04:16 AM PDT by baystaterebel (http://omphalosgazer.blogspot.com/)
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To: baystaterebel
The Republican Party's own version of the Nanny State is to treat us like children. We can't be trusted to gamble away our future.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

6 posted on 10/03/2006 3:06:27 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: baystaterebel

It'll never last. As soon as American firms see British gambling sites making Billions they will put down the pressure.

It also seems strange that we are fighting a WoT to stop religious people forcing their rights and wrongs on the West and yet we do that ourselves.


7 posted on 10/03/2006 3:06:31 AM PDT by Jack2006
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To: Jack2006
The bill only bans Internet gambling. You can still go to your local Indian reservation and gamble. What's the difference whether you do it online or in a brick and mortar casino? I don't understand why one is more bad than the other which still remains lawful.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

8 posted on 10/03/2006 3:09:00 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: baystaterebel

Another step in the direction of:

"Everything that's not required is forbidden"

(For those not paying attention, we're closer to the end of this road than we think...)


9 posted on 10/03/2006 3:11:31 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Stop the "tyranny of the 'offended' " -- say what you mean and stand by it!)
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To: baystaterebel

Settle down, they don't vote now, and when they do vote, they'll be paying taxes so they'll vote for the GOP anyway.


10 posted on 10/03/2006 3:12:16 AM PDT by Hong Kong Expat
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To: Jack2006
It also seems strange that we are fighting a WoT to stop religious people forcing their rights and wrongs on the West and yet we do that ourselves.

Quoted for TRUTH.

God forbid informed adults are allowed to decide the course of our own lives.

11 posted on 10/03/2006 3:15:46 AM PDT by Wormwood (Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.)
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To: goldstategop

" I don't understand why one is more bad than the other which still remains lawful"


I would be willing to bet, that if the government, state or local, were able to tax the earnings (as they do with the tribal casinos), both indvidually and business, that there would be far less of a problem with internet gambling.


12 posted on 10/03/2006 3:19:54 AM PDT by David Isaac
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To: baystaterebel
making it illegal for financial institutions and credit card companies to process payments to settle Internet bets

Hmmmm. I wonder if it's the credit card companies that pushed this? Maybe too many people running up their credit card bills beyond their ability to pay and the companies were having to eat too much of the bad debt.

13 posted on 10/03/2006 3:31:41 AM PDT by libertylover (If it's good and decent, you can be sure the Democrat Party leaders are against it.)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

Internet Gambling has been illegal in the US prior to this legislation. This law stops US Banks from processing Credit Card charges to known offshore gambling sites.

LLS


14 posted on 10/03/2006 3:36:21 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: goldstategop

To be honest, I am not American so don't really care.

I just think it's a bit backward and a blow on personal freedom, when American adults cannot live their lives like the rest of the free world because it offends other Americans who have different beliefs.


15 posted on 10/03/2006 3:40:55 AM PDT by Jack2006
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backward and a blow on personal freedom

True...but gambling has always been regulated in the US....if its been allowed at all. Usually its in the hands of the states as a resource to prop up the state revenue. Since gambling can now be done internationally, the tax revenue man needs a piece of the action....you live in a socialist state, you should have thought of that one.

16 posted on 10/03/2006 3:45:29 AM PDT by Taggart_D
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To: baystaterebel
Dave Barry column (1991): "Watch Out Guys, Men are Now Illegal"
17 posted on 10/03/2006 3:45:55 AM PDT by Sooth2222
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
It crosses state lines and national boundaries, and thus falls into Federal jurisdiction.

Steve Czaban must be steaming.
18 posted on 10/03/2006 3:47:26 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: baystaterebel
"It is extraordinary how many American families have been touched by large losses from Internet gambling,"

Is it anywhere near the number of underaged American male family members who have been touched by congressmen?

19 posted on 10/03/2006 3:49:10 AM PDT by HHFi
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
I don't gamble but, why exactly is the Federal involved in this?

My first thought is that they haven't found a way to tax the winnings. Not sure.....but possibly their first step to taxing the WWW.

20 posted on 10/03/2006 3:52:25 AM PDT by OBXWanderer
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