Posted on 03/25/2015 6:29:09 AM PDT by 54fighting
Since the early days of the Republic, the question of how gambling is regulated has largely been a right reserved for the states. However, this week members of Congress will discuss legislation that would overturn state laws pertaining to gambling within their borders and create a federal ban, preventing states from legalizing online gambling in the future. They claim it is to protect minors, those with addictions, and states that do not want online gambling available to their citizens. This measure will achieve none of those goals. Rather, it will undermine federalism and drive problem gambling underground.
Proponents of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (H.R. 707) argue that the Department of Justice opened the floodgates for online gambling in 2011, when it unilaterally reinterpreted the 1961 Wire Act to apply only to online betting on sports. Yet, H.R. 707 is based on a misleading reading of history. This week, the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee (part of the House Judiciary Committee) will hold a hearing on H.R. 707. Members of the Subcommittee likely will hear misleading claims by H.R. 707 proponents. Many of those claims are addressed below.
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RINO’s at work again.
All they do is force the activity underground.
These people are exactly the same as liberals who want to take away guns and to impose environmental extreme restrictions on property owners. They are a menace.
State regulation with people who live in localitities voting for casinos if they want them works pretty well if the government is going to be involved.
I'd much rather gambling be not legal and controlled. Not illegal, just not a government concern.
We need to get rid of the billionaires who claim to be Patriots. And we need to get rid of the supposed Conservatives that support them.
They WILL destroy our Republic faster than any Libtard could hope. Count on it.
You have the right of it: there is no difference between R and D, except which “side” they play on TV.
It was a GOP controlled Congress with a GOP POTUS who put the kibosh on online poker in the first place.
Sheldon Adelson makes sure he gets some return from his “investment” in the GOP.
Yep, our government is for sale, no sense in blaming someone for buying. It’s good business sense.
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