Posted on 03/20/2014 7:42:20 AM PDT by C19fan
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that “Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz is preparing to introduce a bill that would restore the pre-2011 federal ban on Internet gaming, a spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday. It would join a similar bill to be sponsored in the Senate by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.”
“The goals of the Graham-Chaffetz legislation,” the Review-Journal continues, “are consistent with the highly publicized campaign by billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson to outlaw Internet gambling on moral grounds.”
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Yep. And besides, what is the Biblical basis for gambling being bad to begin with, besides the stewardship reference? It takes a broad interpretation to single out gambling alone as poor stewardship.
“How about letting me spend my money the way I want to.”
Yeah like on drugs and prostitutes.
Exactly!
This shit cost us a lot of votes in 2006.
They’re just doing the bidding of the brick-and-mortar casino owners. If gambling is “bad” and should be outlawed, then it should be outlawed everywhere.
Gambling is evil........unless you go to a casino,play the govermnent lottery, or get drunk at a bar and play Keno.
Exactly. Harry Reid didn’t get his position based on his warm and sunny personality.
He sounds like he is stuck on stupid or a democrat plant.
They’re only protecting their contribution pipeline. Online gaming is mostly overseas and contributions from overseas donors if I recall is illegal.
I don't trust online gaming and I don't trust the government. Most people can gamble within reason but many cannot and get addicted. Is that a good enough reason to restrict it? I don't think so but each state should have the right to answer this question and not the Fed Gov.
As for the votes this cost in 2006 I think many conservatives were looking for any reason to stay home because they were sick with what they voted in to office previously.
NJ now has legal online gaming. But you have to reside in the State of NJ.
I don’t trust online gaming. I can usually be found at the craps table if gambling. I gotta feel them bones in my hand.
Funny how they needed to Amend the Constitution to outlaw alcohol but now they can ban any damn thing they want if they can just scrape together a majority vote.
Drugs, prostitution, gambling, alcohol, even incandescent light bulbs — I don’t see ANY of those listed in Article I, Section 8.
Those are state decisions, not federal ones!
10-4
Let’s see now...
YOU are “playing poker” on the internet
with a faceless computer that:
(1) sees the cards it has,
(2) sees the cards YOU have,
(3) sees all the cards in the “deck” and
(4) can “deal” itself any card it needs to “win”.
WHAT could “go wrong”?
Other than you analogy! Your playing against other people, they can’t see your card’s, can’t see the deck and they don’t deal. When Pokerstars was shut down I was up a little over 8,000.00 dollars for that year. I strictly played sit and goes where your playing against 9 to 18 individuals.
“Bootleggers and Baptists” alliance is nothing new. When I attended Miss. State Uni. the county allowed the sale of liquor but not beer. The beer joints, owned by local merchants, could be found 12 miles away in another county. And every time the beer referendum came up it would be fought by the town church leaders with money supplied by these same merchants. Doing God’s work while keeping the juke-joints open. Amen...
OK, this is laughable, but Adelson is one of the few whales on our side.
He gave millions to Gingrich, for example to defeat Romney.
Let's not piss him off.
The 10th amendment does not say that any federal power not given to the Fed is then given to the states.
“Online gaming is mostly overseas....”
I wonder why that is? It couldn’t have something to do with the fact that the Justice Department chased the American companies out and still has warrants out on the owners, could it?
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